Winter in the Everglades is the best time to enjoy the biggest show of all.
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“STOP the world – I wanna get off!“
All-sky view of the Milky Way and star trails!
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The universe in the night sky above!
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All-sky star trails in the darkness of the Everglades.
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Stars trailing around Polaris in the northern Florida sky. Light pollution glow at bottom.
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“Galaxyshine“
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!
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To fully appreciate the Everglades winter sky experience, it is worthwhile to paddle out to one of the remote backcountry campsites inside the Park, the Ten Thousand Islands or Florida Bay. The western coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is the best to get farther away from city light pollution.
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The Milky Way with a bright Venus setting in this all-sky 360×180 view from the Everglades.
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Who knows?
Who knows if you happen to get up at 40 minutes to 5am in the Everglades! 😉
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Big Dipper with Polaris at extreme left at Canepatch deep in the Everglades.
CLICK for: Canepatch Indian Mound (Avocado Mound)
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“Silent Night”
Orion and stars reflecting in mirror-like water at Canepatch.
CLICK for story: The Lost Portage – connecting streams in the Everglades!
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“Chickee chilling on Florida Bay under the moon and the stars”
360 spin-around panoramic view in the still of the night from the Johnson Key chickee platform.
Camping on the Johnson Key platform in Florida Bay
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Kayakfari ART photography – “Detonation at Dawn” (extended)
Huge storm system moving over eastern Florida Bay vs orange light pollution glow from Miami.
Chickees and Keys in Florida Bay – Kayaking, Camping and Nice Dreams!
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It’s easy to see why the Everglades has some of the darkest skies – you’re about as far away from all the lights as you can get.
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Florida as seen from the ISS in orbit. You can’t completely get away from all the light pollution, but the Everglades is as dark as it gets!
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“Orbital Maneuvers”
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Sunset afterglow and a nearly whole sky view!
CLICK for story: Winter birthday triad on Florida Bay with the ‘Banana Boat’!
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Celestial alignments show the clockwork of the universe at large.
Of course, the alignments only have meaning to us from our particular vantage point in space!
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Incredible planetary alignment in the southern sky just before dawn last winter in the Everglades!
CLICK for story: Winter birthday triad on Florida Bay with the ‘Banana Boat’!
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“Venus setting over the Gulf of Mexico“
This winter’s featured alignment has been a very bright Venus with Mars above!
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Date: Jan 31, 2017 AD
Observation: Moon, Venus and Mars alignment in the western sky.
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The crescent Moon with Venus and Mars trinity in the sky on January 31, 2017!
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A very bright full moon over Little Rabbit Key in this circular panorama.
The Supermoon of 2016 and the full moon camping experience at Little Rabbit Key.
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Beach camping on Whitehorse Key in the Ten Thousand Islands.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I
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Fire, fire burning .. bonfire spewing burnt atoms up into the sky!
Camping at Camp LuLu in the Ten Thousand Islands.
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“Portage to Earth”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!
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The half moon is a great time to observe lunar features!
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The bright full moon with Jupiter and four of it’s largest ‘Galilean’ moons!
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I
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Nearly full moon in early February 2017.
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The penumbral lunar eclipse of February 10, 2017 generated a lot of interest. However, not being a total eclipse, it was not as impressive as the hype might lead one to believe!
We will have a partial lunar eclipse visible from the Everglades in January 2018 and a total eclipse a year later on January 21, 2019!
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The weak penumbral lunar eclipse of February 10, 2017 only shows a slight darkening. However the reduced brightness helps to get a better image of the otherwise extremely bright “snow” full moon!
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In the meantime, enjoy this total eclipse from 2015! 🙂
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A total lunar eclipse taking a bite out of the moon in the fall of 2015.
Harvest moon, Super moon, Blood moon and High Tides of the final tetrad Eclipse of 2015!
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A total lunar eclipse from 2015. One of four visible in the Everglades during 2014 – 2015.
Harvest moon, Super moon, Blood moon and High Tides of the final tetrad Eclipse of 2015!
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Regardless of it’s phase, the moon is always a powerful force affecting all life on planet Earth!
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“Crushing weight of the Moment”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!
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Check out more lunar action and sky photography from the darkness at:
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I
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Get out there and enjoy the Everglades night sky!
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