You probably recognize this location from either the previous blog post or possibly some other images on my flickr site. This was taken about five minutes before the image in the previous post. I was ready to head back to bed (three hours sleep isn’t quite enough) but turned around to see the moon beginning to shine though the clouds.

What I hoped was that the initial appearance of the moon was signaling a parting of the thick cloud cover and that in its wake would be an evenly dispersed layer of fast moving altocumulus clouds (yeah, right!) the results of which, when backlit by the moon, are seen in this image from Gasworks Park in Seattle in 2006. However, that night at Gasworks Park in 2006 was and still is the only time I have been so lucky.

I’m not complaining, however, because during the minute or so that the moon did appear I captured the only image I have captured thus far in which the moon looks like a comet shooting across the sky (thanks to those that pointed that out!)

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