Journey Never Ends: March 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

A Complete Rainbow

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Spring Equinox Sunset from Letterkenny

There is road in Letterkenny too which stretches East West - Take a left from Mountaintop roundabout while driving away form Letterkenny, the Curraghlea road is East to West to very high degree at it's crescent section

Monday, March 26, 2018

Celestial Alignment - 4 Planets and Moon in One Click - 19th March 2018

Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Crescent Moon & Earth!

Mercury and Venus were easily seen by naked eye. The third planet in the click is Uranus which is difficult to spot with Naked eye. However the camera captured it and Stellarium software helped me to locate and mark it on the picture accurately. Uranus can be seen only if you enlarge the picture to 100% size on your screen.

Venus is the brightest dot after moon on the lower right near horizon. Mercury can be spotted a bit higher than Venus towards the right of Venus and fainter than Venus.

The fourth planet is obviously the blue planet – Earth :)

The first picture is the original one, and the second picture is with the planets annotated and the third one is the upper right part of moon expanded to full size to make it easy to spot Uranus.

The picture is taken from Mountain Top, Letterkenny.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Celestial Alignment - Mercury, Venus and Crescent Moon on 19th March 2018 over St. Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny

Venus can be seen as a dot directly over the spire of the Cathedral (St. Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny). Mercury can be seen as a fainter dot compared to Venus, and is the white spot over the tree near the right side of the Cathedral. Crescent moon need not be pointed out. And off course, the third planet in the picture is none other than Earth seen as the dark silhouette below the twilight sky