Coffee break in Damour

Christmas at ABC

The lunar eclipse of 21 - 2 - 2008 in Dik El Mehdi / Metn / Lebanon

First photo taken around 4:30 AM local time , with a 5 Mp Kodack digicam, without zooming, under normal view.

Photos taken with the same camera with 3x optical zoom.

The total Lunar eclipse : notice the red orange color of the moon wich became faint, and the star Regulus on its left, and in the upper left of the picture : the planet Saturn !

The partial lunar eclipse from 4:30 till 5:00 AM local time

The total lunar eclipse around 5:00 AM local time (+2 GMT)

the partial lunar eclipse after 6:00 Am in the morning twilight local time (+2 GMT)

Kartaba summer 07

Fadi just arrived Getting ready to hike

Admiring the view

Resting, hiking upper in the mountain is becoming difficult, so we take a social break

Communicating with the other hikers, who went up the mountain

The camera is on the ground

The 4 musketers, spent most of the trip taking photos and telling jokes, very bad hikers indeed.

A view from up there, Kartaba is not visualized, it's under heavy fog

Tannourine

Eating apples

Fetching apples

Brunch at Zaatar w Zeit

Back to astronomy

Late May 2007 on the roof of our apartment in Champville, looking at Jupiter and his 3 moons that were aligned then.Through the telescope,
And through the binoculars

And this is a photo of venus taken on 26/5/07 that shows this planet in a gibbous phase ( Venus has phases just like the moon)

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