Sunday, June 23, 2013

Look! It's a supermoon

Above: A supermoon over Memphis area about 2:00 a.m. Saturday night. (Click to enlarge.)

Did anybody hear bout the supermoon (see here or see here)? Apparently that's defined as a full moon when it's is closest to the earth. The scientists throw in perigee and other big words to confuse us, but basically it means it's when the moon looks real big.

Photo taken with my Canon 40D at 1/125 sec, ISO 200 and focal length 200 mm. Since I don't know what perigee means, I just added focal length and ISO to impress you. Did it work?

7 comments:

  1. Perigee has to mean two G's doesn't it?

    Welcome home. Maybe a visit to your local tourist traps would help the withdrawal. :)

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  2. The newspaper here said that the moon was 16% bigger and 30% brighter last night. Julie and I went out after midnight and she took some photos through a 300 mm lens. Normally f/8 and 1/125 is a good setting for the moon on 100 ISO, but last night she had to increase the shutter speed to 1/400 because the moon was too bright and over exposing a normal setting for the moon.

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  3. @Dave: My F-stop was 11 (if I remember right). I meant to use ISO 100, but was experimenting with 200 and was surprised when after downloading it, I checked the data and saw it was 200. Whatever. I hope Julie will publish what she got.

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  4. Great shot! Moon shots are not easy, you nailed it.

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  5. You did well! Very well. I had everything set up ... camera, tripod, remote ...

    The moon came up a gassy haze and stayed that way ... oh well. Maybe next time. :)

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  6. Mrs. lightning forgot about it and missed it. She was not happy.

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  7. Thanks to all who left comments.

    I forgot to add that I normally shoot in aperture priority mode. That didn't work like I wanted it to, so I tried shutter priority and that worked like I hoped it would.

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