Welcome to Paraselene!
Paraselene is a gallery of images with brief explanations dedicated to atmospheric optics and astrophotography.
This site is about enjoying the beauties of nature and learning to see. A few phenomena may be rather rare where you live or not occur at all, but there will always be many others to see. Understanding these phenomena adds to their beauty.
Browse the database by using the newly edited menu or using the index and the search function.
Interested in landscape and nature photography? See the Moon's other companion: “Paraselene2“!
Last Update: March 4th, 2019
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Comet NEOWISE 2020/F3. See http://www.paraselene.de?uk:143314 for more.