June 1, 2008

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Another Kind of Lunar Rays

LPOD-June1-08.jpg
image by Mila Zinkova

An LPOD without a Moon. But evidence for the Moon is provided by streamers of Moonlight passing around obstacles on a Yosemite National Park hillside. The light is visible because of aerosols, dust and other particles in the atmosphere. Such crepuscular rays would not exist on the atmosphereless Moon, unless the putative electrostatically levitated dust could provide particles to map out light from the source - presumably the Sun or the Earth. I love the exotic feeling of this image. Has anyone else captured lunar crepuscular rays?

Chuck Wood

Technical Details
21 May 2008. 70 mm lens, 6 second exposure. Yosemite.

Related Links
Mila's beautiful website

COMMENTS

(1) Wonderful photograph!
Imagine how the rays would look like if the lightsource was a bright point-like Supernova instead of the disc-like Full Moon.
P.S.;

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