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LUNA | instagraming moments of 2014

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This year has been impressive with viewing the Moon Luna.. With every unique passing moments or each night… in some case waiting for Luna in from the early parts of the days evenings to the very later parts in the night onwards till past midnight…

Each night, it’s different from the other nights when viewing… The Shadows that been cast by the monstrous craters…  in which the craters towering more length that another large cities on Earth… Due to the size of Moon Luna is roughly about the diameter of Australia… also the shadows are different telling their own story…. Thinking this year is all about Luna’s shadows from casted by sun onto the Craters..

Progressively throughout year, there has be some awesome viewing of the International Space Station through the telescope. Seeing as it pass by with seeing the main structure, the solar arrays, the habit modules…  with each viewing seeing the orientation of panels positioning in different angles as it moves to the facing the sun..

When you look at the moon or Luna each night Wink at the Moon-Luna as remembering the Late Astronaut Neil Armstrong   and his Amazing works…

DOCTOR WHO | Christmas special 2014- there’s something about Santa……?

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On Christmas day at a time of 1815 British time on this years “Doctor who” Christmas special, there’s something investigative going on at the north pole in Arctic that involves a base with people trapped on a base that is under attack from creatures that are hibernated awoken in after they been retrieved from somewhere..  In this seems it’s been years after that the Doctor and Clara have been adventuring together in since she’s morning for Danny… But with a new place hence she’s she moving on with that closure since the “Death in Heaven” episode where we met the Mistress the female regenerative Master…

In this also Santa and his elves helpers aren’t that nice or what they’re  traditionally seems, but rather grey and dark on the one’s that we used to know as cheerfully merry Santa… whom this one  seems very dangerously a like a villain but a very helpfully one in getting things done..

SLIDESHOW | Luna photography- it’s all about looking at April closer…. 2014

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Looking out the April night sky in Auckland and having going through the changes of out of Daylight savings, means the night sky only gets very early dark…  In this I notice that the skies are getting colder, in that the starry light is a little sharper, than to the summery nights.  Noticing from the westward view the Orion constellation is settling down early now. Looking back only a couple of weeks ago the Planets Mars and even more later Saturn rising in the East.. Having Mars only blushing Reddish more… in as it rise from the horizon..  Saturn is still an amazing sight to been seen, with its slight angled rings…

As for the moon its duration phases are quite revealing in showing the depths of the craters by the casted shadows, in itself slowly revealing its grey-ish white Luna surface… showing its city large craters.. one nice thing is when you look at edge of the moon you could see the distinctive features of height of the Luna circumference crater heights…

GRAVITY | the Oscars 2014- NASA takes time to congratulate and celebrate…

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As today on during the Academy- Oscar awards 2014 , the movie Gravity won several exciting awards categories in the rained out afternoons of Los Angeles. The movie Gravity is a space shuttle mission that was a regular routine mission in that the Space shuttle explorer, plus her crew follow by the leading actors Academy awards winners Sandra Bullock (Doctor Ryan Stone, Mission Specialist) and George Clooney (Matt Kowalski, veteran Astronaut), are doing a just by the book on somewhat repair mission on the Hubble Space telescope, or some satellite that resemble the primary item, the HST.  Along the way there was flying debris that was headed there way, seeming following by a folly of it, hitting shuttle Explorer,  one of the crew is hit,  while seeming to make way back to the Explorer. Then a colossal of climax of situation arises. Until the HST has been complete ripped apart also the shuttle explorer complete fractured, spinning out of control, until when stone, trying to make reparative contact with Huston….. Until to no avail, leading them Stone and Kowalski into uncertain elements of trying to find self-assistances from the increasing calamity, to the International Space station.

During the Academy-Oscar Awards in representation of NASA in congratulating the Cast and Crew of the Films achievement is Expedition 27 Astronaut Cady Coleman, Astronaut Mike Massimino, also the Aboard International Space Station Astronauts, JAXA Koichi Wakata, NASA Astronauts, Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio..

The Following Academy Oscar awards 2014 categories that it won on:

Great cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki

Directing –Alfonso Cuaron

Film Editing _ Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger

Music –original score – Steven Price

Sound Editing – Glenn Freemantle

Sound Mixing – Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

Visual Effects -Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould

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SIDESHOW |AUCKLAND NZL – Chinese lantern festival 2014

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This weekend in Auckland in celebrating Chinese New Year in Albert Park, right next, across the road of Auckland University…. The first night Thursday was getting everything ready for the weekend, the setting up of lanterns are from each different genre of Chinese legends, myths and New Zealand culture… Weather wise it was cloudy that Thursday night, but it didn’t stop people visiting the event’s exhibits itself.

Orthough, I went in very early orthough on the 13th and it was at 2200 hours in the very latest of nights, there wast meant to be food street side stalls and mechanizing from each different regions of Asia like found in Nathan Road in Hong Kong… but that food sampling starts on Friday… but that 13th night, Thursday was a very sneak peak of whats to come on festive Friday weekend…

The Chinese lantern festival festive located at Albert Park in Central Auckland right next to Auckland University between 13th to the 16th of February 2014.

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