POTD: Creation Myth #3

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Creation Myth #3
Bozeman, Montana
2020

I’ve been fooling around with the ideas for this one for about a month and have been actively working on it on much of the last week, finishing it yesterday on a dreary, dark solstice. Or at least I think I’m finished with it. With these things you never know.

Addendum: I drafted this post early in the day yesterday when it was in fact dark and dreary. However, come sunset there was a break in the clouds in the west. Besides providing a lovely  sunset, a dark cloud in the southwest sitting over the top of Jupiter and Saturn moved away just in time to provide a very clear view of their conjunction. A very pleasant surprise given our overcast weather of late and a nice note to help help usher in the close of this troublesome year. (In spite of it being an historical event,the first time in some 800 years they have been visible when this close, I did not go out to photograph it, just to view it. I will enjoy photos posted on the internet by folks with much better equipment and better skills at astrophotography than I have.)

 

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POTD: Crescent Moon

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Crescent Moon
Bozeman, Montana
2020

It’s not looking good for being able to view the upcoming conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at their closest in hundreds of years on Monday. The weather forecast is showing lots of clouds for the next week. On the 11th, the last really clear evening we’ve had, we walked over to the ridge west of our house and saw them as they were starting to get close together. A couple of nights ago I went back after seeing a bit of blue sky in the west as the sun was going down. While I was nicely rewarded with this nice view of the crescent moon, the haze of clouds made Jupiter hard to see and Saturn not visible at all. (Don’t bother looking for them in this photo–they were out of the frame.)

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