After a foggy sunset, I stayed through twilight, then a bit into a full-moon night that was uncharacteristically clear and calm for a Pacific Northwest beach. Good thing too…for as the moon rose over the oceanside hills and shone in rays through forest gaps, it still wasn’t too high to bear a somewhat reddened tone, reflected off gray logs, dark-gray/brown sea stacks, and a thin layer of marine fog still lingering distantly. As with the sun, this effect comes from the light’s extended passage and filtering through the atmosphere during the period following moonrise. Consider it the “moonlight magic hour”, analogous to that of sunlight before dusk and after dawn. Even with the moonlight’s brilliance, and brightness magnified by time exposure, the Milky Way faintly appears in the sky.
17 S Forks WA (18 Aug 16) Looking S
47.7111, -124.4156Moonlit Evening on Ruby Beach
After a foggy sunset, I stayed through twilight, then a bit into a full-moon night that was uncharacteristically clear and calm for a Pacific Northwest beach. Good thing too…for as the moon rose over the oceanside hills and shone in rays through forest gaps, it still wasn’t too high to bear a somewhat reddened tone, reflected off gray logs, dark-gray/brown sea stacks, and a thin layer of marine fog still lingering distantly. As with the sun, this effect comes from the light’s extended passage and filtering through the atmosphere during the period following moonrise. Consider it the “moonlight magic hour”, analogous to that of sunlight before dusk and after dawn. Even with the moonlight’s brilliance, and brightness magnified by time exposure, the Milky Way faintly appears in the sky.
17 S Forks WA (18 Aug 16) Looking S
47.7111, -124.4156