Lamma delights 272 - birds

Lamma delights 271 - stars, birds

Lamma delights 270 - moon

ISO 500  1/250s F8 tripod

Lamma delights 296 - birds

Lamma delights 295 - birds, sunrise

Lamma delights 294 - moon

Lamma delights 293 - moon, star, birds

 Crescent moon is below the planets Mars (upper left) and Saturn (upper right) with the star Spica located directly to the right of the moon. (West-southwest, after sunset)   

Seen on Aug 21, 2012

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/159708-unusual-star-moon-formation-august-21-2012/
Should be closer on Aug 22, 2012 but the sky is not clear

 

 

Lamma delights 292 - Egrets

June 2011

March 2011

Other people photos

Rahul Shama

Elizabeth Ludeman Kraer - First Place Award

 

 

 

Lamma delights 291 - yacht, birds, stars

Mars Saturn Spica (To be confirmed)

Moon Sand

Prestige 500 http://www.prestige-yachts.com/luxury-yachts/prestige-500.html#

Lamma delights 290 - lightning

Around 12 midnight. Big thunder closing in and rain. Thunder then receded from the east to the south. Lightning persisted until 1 :20 am. Hong Kong Observatory Record for cloud-to-ground lightning : 00:00-00:59 (826) and 01:00-01:59 (7); for cloud-to-cloud lightning : 00:00-00:59 (382) and 01:00-01:59 (1).

Similar lightning in US http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthays/7757038536/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthays/7738502640/
Toronto http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/9450424/The-week-in-pictures-3-August-2012.html
Dallas http://www.businessinsider.com/insane-photo-of-all-the-lightning-over-dallas-2012-8
Collection http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangobabe1/galleries/72157622662843021/

Simialr lightning in US http://www.timernst.com/printofthemonth.html

Other lightning in Hong Kong

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piyo02mel/6996297146/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mungler/4113738180/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan_kinglun_liu/3768932312/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotokurse-berlin/50724034/in/gallery-tangobabe1-72157622662843021/

Lamma delights 289 - moon, stars, birds, sunset

Photograph http://earthsky.org/tonight/mars-saturn-and-spica-line-up-on-evening-of-august-13
Moon and 3 stars http://earthsky.org/tonight/mars-rover-curiosity-to-land-today-see-mars-tonight
Spica is a whirling double star http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/speed-on-to-spica-the-15th-brightest-star

 from http://nightskyonline.info/?page_id=2040