michael melius

@bigmoke.bsky.social

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Farmer, writer, naturalist--the best of all worlds.

Photograph of sun in total eclipse, August 21, 2017.
The moon is seen low in the sky, dark and ruddy colored because it is totally eclipsed by the earth's shadow. Photo taken in southern Arizona, Jan. 2018.
A comet as seen in the night sky of western South Dakota, October 2024.
Our moon in a crescent phase with Venus to the left (east) of it, from the morning of DEc. 7, 2015. The moon is about to occult Venus, passing in front of it from earth's point of view.