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Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Perigee 2013
It was the closest moon for the year and it looked great. Here is a shot of it. Maybe I might get a chance to take an apogee shot to compare again next time.
Funny looking tree and a haze takes the weekend off
On my way back
today, I suddenly notice my neighbour has a very interesting looking
tree. So took out the Canon with tripod and took a picture and this is
what I got.
Based on what I can decipher, a bougainvillea creeper has grown all over the tree, making it look like it is flowering.
Yeah there is a good chance that we will get to see the full moon tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed until evening time. PSI has been mostly below the 100 range for the whole day now. In fact, it has been mostly around 70s and 80s. I am very sure retailers are very grateful for this respite. NTUC Unity is still doing brisk business on the N95 masks. We bought sufficient for ourselves last night and today's queue is the same as before, moderately long only. So no need to panic people.
As shown below over a series of days, the haze become less dense for us over the weekend but that does not mean we are totally clear! The dense haze is hanging around and a change in winds is expected to bring the dense haze back to the little red dot. So let us enjoy our good fortune while it last. For some it might mean getting out for exercise, other might be to go and get the best deals during this GSS (Great Singapore Sale) period. Others like me who have lousy respiratory systems, it is sleeping without hacking out half a lung with yellow phlegm that can act as a binding agent.
The last graphic, er it has a "distinctive" shape, maybe giving a nasty greeting to the people in that region. Also it seems to indicate the wind direction is blowing the haze into a curve and maybe we will get clean air for the next few days!
Based on what I can decipher, a bougainvillea creeper has grown all over the tree, making it look like it is flowering.
Yeah there is a good chance that we will get to see the full moon tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed until evening time. PSI has been mostly below the 100 range for the whole day now. In fact, it has been mostly around 70s and 80s. I am very sure retailers are very grateful for this respite. NTUC Unity is still doing brisk business on the N95 masks. We bought sufficient for ourselves last night and today's queue is the same as before, moderately long only. So no need to panic people.
As shown below over a series of days, the haze become less dense for us over the weekend but that does not mean we are totally clear! The dense haze is hanging around and a change in winds is expected to bring the dense haze back to the little red dot. So let us enjoy our good fortune while it last. For some it might mean getting out for exercise, other might be to go and get the best deals during this GSS (Great Singapore Sale) period. Others like me who have lousy respiratory systems, it is sleeping without hacking out half a lung with yellow phlegm that can act as a binding agent.
The last graphic, er it has a "distinctive" shape, maybe giving a nasty greeting to the people in that region. Also it seems to indicate the wind direction is blowing the haze into a curve and maybe we will get clean air for the next few days!
Friday, 21 June 2013
Oh moon where art thou? Hopefully me sees you on 23rd June
Woke up sometime at 033hrs and could not fall back to slumber. I recalled that the Full Moon Perigee (largest and close full moon of 2013) was coming up and googled around to find out more. The Science Centre has a PDF which lists out interesting celestial events of the year which was very interesting indeed as I did not realise that we could sometimes see other planets with the naked eye other than Mars. The link is here.
So in a nutshell, between 8pm - 6am on that day we we get to see a big moon. So hopefully the haze will not obstruct the view too much! With a zooms lens, I managed to capture quite a nice moon picture as seen below. So fingers crossed for good skies 23rd.
The great news was that throughout last night the haze overall decreased quite significantly until it briefly fell just under the unhealthy range. Now that the Indonesian farmers have woken up and eaten breakfast, they are starting work. So the PSI now is slowly creeping up again. I jest I jest but the truth is it is slowly creeping up. Oh well here we go again, same old $#!T again... as the army song went...
So in a nutshell, between 8pm - 6am on that day we we get to see a big moon. So hopefully the haze will not obstruct the view too much! With a zooms lens, I managed to capture quite a nice moon picture as seen below. So fingers crossed for good skies 23rd.
The great news was that throughout last night the haze overall decreased quite significantly until it briefly fell just under the unhealthy range. Now that the Indonesian farmers have woken up and eaten breakfast, they are starting work. So the PSI now is slowly creeping up again. I jest I jest but the truth is it is slowly creeping up. Oh well here we go again, same old $#!T again... as the army song went...
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