The weather was quite still and the outside temp was only a few degrees above freezing. Having just crawled out of a nice warm bed I was grateful for the absence of a breeze!
The streaks in the sky are, surprisingly, aircraft vapour trails (why there are so many aircraft movements at this early hour is a mystery to me). A little time later, these trails became red streaks of fire in the sky.
The picture was taken with a Philips ESP-80 Digital Camera, hand-held using fully automatic settings. The view was composed with the wide angle setting of its zoom lens, equivalent to a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera. Both the Moon and Venus are overexposed somewhat owing to the centre-weighted metering.
This picture has been cropped and scaled to 242 x 400 to allow 640 x 480 screens to show it reasonably well.
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All photographs Copyright (c) GC Wood 1999.
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