Moon

A nice big moon that brightened our night. It was a depressing night otherwise, but the moon made me cheer up!




as close to it as I could get with the zoom maxed at 200 mm...


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aaaawooooooooooo

It was a full moon yesterday. There were lots of clouds as well and the moon was throwing red hues through the clouds!

Thought it would make a good HDR subject and was really challenged.

1. you have to take the shot with a long exposure
2. if you are limited to a 90mm max zoom then the moon keeps moving.. and the clouds keep moving as well. it can be a problem if the moon keeps moving slightly and you have a 10 second exposure.
3. if you shorten the exposure it is all black

The HDR did not work. Just could not align everything. Did get one picture of the moon.




If you have a 200mm or higher zoom try it. You might have much better results.


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Sometimes a picture is worth nothing

Two days ago, while coming home, it was around 6:30 PM and the sun had set already.

The moon was rising and there was this really bright planet very close to the moon.

The sky was so clear near the moon and the bottom part of the moon almost appeared to be bouncing light back and forth between the sun and the planet!

My first guess was it was probably Jupiter (which usually shows up nice , bright and white), but thanks to this site (and a google search for "planet near moon february" ), we now know it was Venus!

It was really an amazing site to see this.

Tried to capture it without a tripod (knowing it won't get a good shot) and this was the result..




Hope you got to see it live!

That leads us to a travelog post. We just visited the Chabot Space and Science Center. It was fun..


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