Tonight's Bananamoon is dedicated to Daevid Allen and all the other denizens of the Planet Gong.

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It's surprising how many planes pass through the view during a typical timelapse session. Also satellites and meteorites. All of which have to be photoshopped out of the individual 15-second frames (usually 3 or 4 frames per occurence, except for meteorites which only show up for one frame).

The planes have a blinking light pattern, as seen here, whereas satellites and meteorites are a more solid line.

The bright star to the left of the plane trail is Capella.

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March 25, 2012. The new crescent moon snuggles up near Jupiter, with Venus just above. Lots of Earthshine visible in the otherwise unlit portion of the moon.

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New Moon tonight. The weather cleared up just long enough to get this shot. My zoom only goes to 250mm so not as much detail as I would like, but I think it captures the essence of this phase.

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Another Aurora shot from this evening... I think that's the North Star up there, slightly left of centre.

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