My husband took this using a telephoto lens, we were parked in a layby about a mile away from the windmill. It's rare that a long trek isn't required for this type of shot, but we were able to set up next to the van for this one! #IsleofWight#AvailableLightPhotography
Three of the four Galilean Moons are visible in this picture along with, of course, Jupiter. (The fourth one might be to the far right...)
Thought they were a linear smudge or reflection from the planet until I realised they were three distinct other objects. Felt a whoosh of excitement with that revelation!
Taken with my mobile phone up to the lens of our telescope in 2016.
He used a telephoto lens and was standing a mile away to capture this perspective. It also involved dodging some traffic as the angle needed to be from the middle of a busy road! #LandscapePhotography#AvailableLightPhotography
Anyhow. came across this picture of the #Moon taken during daylight through our telescope in 2020. The photo was actually done with a mobile phone right up to the eyepiece, so a very amateur bit of astronomy!
"The Astera (Stars) hide away their shining form around lovely #Selene (the Moon) when in all her fullnesss she shines over all the earth." #Sappho, Fragment 34
🏛️ Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths
#Selene driving her moon chariot, here shown as a team of four horses. She has a shining aureola around her head and the reins and her riding crop in hand. She is followed by her brother #Helios, the fish around them suggesting that one is descending and the other rising.
🏛️ Canosa, Italy, ca. 330 – 310 BCE; now at Munich, Antikensammlung
Roman sarcophagus with #Selene, the #Moon, in the top left corner with her team of horses and Helios in his quadriga on the right. The scene shows the creation of man by #Prometheus.
🏛️ Roman sarcophagus found in a mausoleum near the ancient Puteoli (Pozzuoli, Naples). Dated to the 4th century CE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples.
"Shine, Moon of the night, horned Moon, who loves to look on revels, shine through the lattice and let your light fall on golden Callistiŏn. It is no offence for an immortal to pry into the secrets of lovers. You bless her and me, I know, O Moon, for did not Endymion set your soul afire?"
Philodemos, Epigrams 5.123
🏛️ Roman sarcophagus, detail, dated 3rd century CE
Mosaic of #Helios, #Selene and the 12 labours of the months. The Sun and the Moon are in the centre with the 12 labours arranged around them. Each of the labourers is labelled at the feet with the number of days as well as the Latin name of the month in Greek letters.
🏛️ Roman era #mosaic dated 6th century CE, Beit She'an, Israel
"Swelled like young Mene's the [#Moon's] arching chariot-rail when high over Okeanos' fathomless-flowing stream she rises, with the space half filled with light between her bowing horns."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1.147
🏛️ #Fresco on the facade of the House of Venus and the Four Gods (IX. 7. 1), 1st century CE, Pompeii
Mould-made oil lamp with a circular body and a pierced handle. On the discus is a draped bust of Luna with the horns of a crescent #moon rising on each side of her.
🏛️ Roman oil lamp made by C. Atilius Vestalis, dated 90-140 CE. Today in the British Museum.
Selene-Diana and Endymion as a couple on the ivory Querinian diptych. A diptych is any object with two flat plates forming a pair, for example the standard notebook of the ancient world.
🏛️ Selene-Diana and Endymion, Roman relief, circa 5th century CE, found in Brescia and today residing in the Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia.
Selene, with her lunar crescent emerging from her shoulders, on her way to meet her lover Endymion. The right hand, which may have held a torch, is missing.
Hail, white-armed goddess, bright #Selene, mild, bright-tressed queen! Now I'll leave you and sing the glories of demigods, whose deeds poets, the servants of the Muses, celebrate with lovely lips.
Homeric Hymn 32