Supermoon Tonight [Archive]

rgray

Mar 19th, 2011, 08:26 AM

'Supermoon' to loom large on Saturday - Technology & Science - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/18/sci-supermoon-394.html)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/03/18/li-supermoon-620-nasa881.jpg

SINC

Mar 19th, 2011, 09:27 AM

Get your camera ready tonight! The moon will be the closest to us in the last 18 years.

Our forecast is cloudy with flurries. Dang it anyway!

Bjornbro

Mar 19th, 2011, 10:51 AM

Dang it anyway!
I was going to dang it, ;) but then I checked the hourly forecast... Looks like after 11 pm (http://www.theweathernetwork.com/hourlyfx/caon0623/hourlygraph/1?ref=qlink_obs_hourly) we're supposed to be all clear. :clap: Perfect! Saturday night, hot tub, cut fruit, some wine, my bride, and a whole full moon. :love2:

eMacMan

Mar 19th, 2011, 10:52 AM

Our forecast is cloudy with flurries. Dang it anyway!

Ditto!

FeXL

Mar 19th, 2011, 12:02 PM

and a whole full moon. :love2:

Just to clarify...whose full moon?

('cause if it's yours, I'm not sure I want to return to this thread...) ;)

Digikid

Mar 19th, 2011, 12:06 PM

Our forecast is cloudy with flurries. Dang it anyway!

Never ever EVER trust weather forecasts. They are completely and utterly useless.

That said....I hope to get a good shot with my camera and the best lens I have....which is not much.

Camera: Canon Rebel XS
Lens: 75 300

:(

Digikid

Mar 19th, 2011, 12:07 PM

Just to clarify...whose full moon?

('cause if it's yours, I'm not sure I want to return to this thread...) ;)

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

tilt

Mar 19th, 2011, 12:44 PM

Our forecast is cloudy with flurries. Dang it anyway!

OK, I have dung it. Now what?

Cheers

keebler27

Mar 19th, 2011, 01:28 PM

great reminder!

I remember looking at the last full moon thinking, "holy crap, it's huge and looks like it's going to crash on the horizon!!!!"

So I imagine the same will happen tonight.

batteries are charing for a little B action :) (not that i've ever managed to take a decent moon pic :) lol

Bjornbro

Mar 19th, 2011, 01:54 PM

Just to clarify...whose full moon?

('cause if it's yours, I'm not sure I want to return to this thread...) ;)
Très drôle. ;)

Digikid

Mar 19th, 2011, 08:19 PM

So everyone ready? LOL!!!

SINC

Mar 19th, 2011, 08:42 PM

After a sunny day, our cloud had rolled in just in time to obscure the moonrise. Dang it anyway!

keebler27

Mar 19th, 2011, 09:10 PM

i caught it too late. it was already too high. it looks bigger, but last month was just phenomenal b/c i was coming home right after it lifted above the horizon and it was so huge.

another moment i'll never forget b/c the picture was amazing - and i didn't have my camera to at least get a half crappy shot to remember it better.

doh!

Macfury

Mar 19th, 2011, 09:14 PM

Looking good from the centre of the universe.

Digikid

Mar 19th, 2011, 11:17 PM

Well I guess that I was wrong....here are the shots that I took.

Amateur I know.

Both were put through iPhoto and were enhanced slightly.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/378/img5697i.jpg

and this was later on....same size but color was gone.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/6683/fullmoono.jpg

mguertin

Mar 20th, 2011, 12:08 AM

Alas I am many hours away from my camera gear :( I got some good shots of the last Perigee moon though :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/3103171487_890bd44276.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/3103171487/)
Perigee Full Moon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/3103171487/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Macfury

Mar 20th, 2011, 01:14 AM

Nice shots, digikid and mguertin!

SoyMac

Mar 20th, 2011, 01:14 AM

Tonight over Ottawa:

Digikid

Mar 20th, 2011, 09:22 AM

Sonal

Mar 20th, 2011, 04:48 PM

I didn't take this, but I was there while it was taken. Last night in Toronto.

Dr.G.

Mar 20th, 2011, 04:52 PM

I didn't take this, but I was there while it was taken. Last night in Toronto.

Great shot, Sonal. All we saw was snow up in the sky here in St.John's.

Kazak

Mar 20th, 2011, 08:59 PM

Great shots. Anybody got a different angle?

(Tee hee.)

Digikid

Mar 20th, 2011, 10:16 PM

Great shots. Anybody got a different angle?

(Tee hee.)

LOL!!!!! Good one! :clap::lmao::D

mguertin

Mar 20th, 2011, 10:18 PM

Great shots. Anybody got a different angle?

(Tee hee.)

Here's another angle for you (really):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/3101734311_064d16d73c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/5cheherazad3/3101734311/)
Perigee (http://www.flickr.com/photos/5cheherazad3/3101734311/) by WilliamBullimore (http://www.flickr.com/people/5cheherazad3/), on Flickr

EDIT: This one is taken in Australia and it is indeed a different angle :)

eMacMan

Mar 20th, 2011, 10:54 PM

Alas I am many hours away from my camera gear :( I got some good shots of the last Perigee moon though :)
Perigee Full Moon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/3103171487/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Combined your two moon shots to get this stereo image.
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AlexSno

Mar 21st, 2011, 05:32 AM

hehehe liked the another angle request :P

Kazak

Mar 21st, 2011, 12:32 PM

hehehe liked the another angle request :P

Thanks, but mguertin fixed my wagon.

FeXL

Mar 21st, 2011, 02:30 PM

hehehe liked the another angle request :P

I jes' knows I'm gonna open an image on this thread that's gonna make me regret it... :eek:

hbp

Mar 21st, 2011, 06:17 PM

Wish I could see the far side of the moon with my bare eyes.

Digikid

Mar 21st, 2011, 09:24 PM

I jes' knows I'm gonna open an image on this thread that's gonna make me regret it... :eek:

LOL!!! DO IT!!! hehehe......

kloan

Mar 21st, 2011, 11:26 PM

Digikid

Mar 22nd, 2011, 07:01 AM

Because if that was done it would not have been as impressive. Besides....my Telephoto Lense is not that good so that is probably as good as "your request" as it is gonna get. LOL!

mguertin

Mar 22nd, 2011, 11:32 AM

It'd be nice to see the moon in context... a zoomed in picture of the moon can be from anything, from super zoom to a telescope. Why aren't there any pics showing how large the moon was in comparison to the landscape?

You probably wouldn't really notice it much in this context to be honest. You'd probably have to A/B photos of perigee and non-perigee and at that point you'd still have to do some sort of measurements to find the differences, they probably wouldn't be immediately noticeable. Also a photo of this type would be pretty hard to make look interesting, you'd have to do HDR or combine multiple exposures at the very least to make it look reasonable. To get the nice crisp shot of the perigee moon in mine required an "expose to the right" technique and some serious post processing ... if there was any other subject matter in the photo it would just be big black blobs at that point.

mguertin

Mar 23rd, 2011, 01:40 PM

Combined your two moon shots to get this stereo image.
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Thanks, that's pretty cool ... wish that I could actually _see_ these types of things properly. They have never worked for me (damned astigmatism).

AlexSno

Mar 24th, 2011, 08:22 AM

Sadly to inform you i hate those darn clouds. Every time you have something interesting to see on your sky they appear and ruin the moment.

Atroz

Mar 24th, 2011, 10:52 AM

I went out to a field to get some shots with a 300F4 and 1.7TC (so about 500mm) on a Nikon DSLR. I was out for over an hour and got some good shots. I packed up my gear (tripod, etc) and headed back out of the field to the house where some guests were. I visited with them for a while and then decided to take a few hand held shots now that the moon was higher in the sky. Here's what I got: