Dear WeatherCat faithful,
Hey where is everybody? This is the worst case of Spring fever I've seen around here!
Oh well, I kind of promised to post anything I came up with yesterday, so here it goes. We had some dramatic lighting for an evening scene which resulted in this combo of the anemometer, Moon, and cloud bank:
About 1/2 hour later, I managed to take this photo through the awning we have over the deck where I usually take these pictures:
However, you might notice something that is clearly an handicap in taking these photos from my deck. The Moon is now passing my anemometer noticeably further to the South, while my view of the anemometer mostly East. So much so that I really had to struggle to find a spot where I could have two in the same image. That's because the full Moon is now rising in one of the most Southerly constellations of the Zodiac: Scorpio. From my location that makes this sort of photograph difficult. It will take a month or two for the full Moon's to wind their way past Sagittarius and start moving North into Capricorn and Aquarius.
With a little knowledge of astronomy and an awareness of your horizons, you can better plan to take photos like this and avoid making attempts when the Moon simply won't line up as you need.
Cheers, Edouard