Moonlight
A couple of months ago we had a safety meeting, where the Station Manager mentioned a previous incident many years back when a vehicle dropped through the ice. Later that same day two bulldozers got stuck when they broke through a pocket in the ice shelf.
Last week we had a safety meeting when he talked about fire danger, and showed some old videos from many years ago when the chapel burned down, and another incident when the Vehicle Maintenance Workshop burned down. An hour or so after the meeting, one of the buildings out at the runway caught fire and went up in smoke along with about 700 gallons of fuel. There was no one out there at the time, but the flames could be clearly seen from back in town.
View of the fire 9 miles /15km away from McMurdo in the noon twilight.
We have told him whatever he does, don't talk about volcanic eruptions at the next safety meeting.
We have a full moon now, providing a lot of light in the absence of the sun.
Next week with the moon gone it will be pretty much black skies and stars all day and night.
At noon there will be a bit of a glow to the north, but still black overhead.
This picture is from the middle of a time-lapse movie sequence I got last week, where green auroras can be seen in the blue sky with the stars out.
All the light is from the moon. There is a shooting star on the left of the picture too...
One last photo, here's one of me the other night while I was out getting aurora photos. It was quite a warm night as you can see, as I am not dressed very warmly...
Last week we had a safety meeting when he talked about fire danger, and showed some old videos from many years ago when the chapel burned down, and another incident when the Vehicle Maintenance Workshop burned down. An hour or so after the meeting, one of the buildings out at the runway caught fire and went up in smoke along with about 700 gallons of fuel. There was no one out there at the time, but the flames could be clearly seen from back in town.
View of the fire 9 miles /15km away from McMurdo in the noon twilight.
We have told him whatever he does, don't talk about volcanic eruptions at the next safety meeting.
We have a full moon now, providing a lot of light in the absence of the sun.
Next week with the moon gone it will be pretty much black skies and stars all day and night.
At noon there will be a bit of a glow to the north, but still black overhead.
This picture is from the middle of a time-lapse movie sequence I got last week, where green auroras can be seen in the blue sky with the stars out.
All the light is from the moon. There is a shooting star on the left of the picture too...
One last photo, here's one of me the other night while I was out getting aurora photos. It was quite a warm night as you can see, as I am not dressed very warmly...
hello from greece!<<2nd photo>>that light comes from the moon?lucky you!
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The photo is slightly over-exposed, but not a lot. You can see the stars in the sky. The yellow light on the ground by the stop sign is from the buildings back behind the camera, so you can see the actual moonlight was not too much different.
Extremely clean air and lots of white reflective snowy surfaces as far as the eye can see in almost every direction helps too.
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The blue sky moonlit night is strange but beautiful from where I sit in sunny Sydney - with shooting stars to boot. Thanks for all yr updates and photos. Fascinating.
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Antz,
Your McMurdo images are remarkable. We were limited in 1957 by ASA 25 film trying to record the night sky. Your captions read well.
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Yes, ASA 25 would be mighty difficult. I am really liking the low light capabilities of some of the new cameras.
It would be interesting to get some photos of the McMurdo area from the same vantage points with similar lenses etc to do comparison shots to see how much things have changed in the last 50 years.
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Been a while since you updated the blog aye?
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Just busy thawing out...
Standby for an update.
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