Absolutely incredible moonrise for the blue moon/supermoon combo tonight. I went out to Cape Saunders on the Otago Peninsula and boy was I glad I did! Here's a picture taken at 6:08:49 when technically the moon was at very low altitude (much less than a degree) and WOW OH WOW look at the refraction effects as the moon rises over the Ocean. #bluemoon#supermoon#moon#astronomy#refraction#NewZealand
Not a real picture, but a bit of fun to mark last night's blue supermoon. Supermoons are when the moon looms larger in the sky because it's briefly closer to the Earth. A blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. This was done with photoshop, but both images were taken in Glasgow.
I've found something else I'm no good at photographing: the moon.
The 1st image shows some details of the moon. Everything else is underexposed and utterly dark.
f4.8
ISO 800
1/2000 second
200mm
The 2nd image shows improved exposure around the moon, with some surrounding detail. But the moon is so overexposed, it looks like the sun.
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ISO 800
1/5 second
200mm
How do you get the best of both worlds without combining images, or manipulating things with an editor?
The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon, a Blue Moon, and Rakhi Purnima.
“The older definition of Blue Moon, dating back to at least the 1500s, is the name for the third full Moon in a season that has four Moons. […] Neither of these definitions has anything to do with the color of the Moon, so the Blue Moon will not actually look blue.”
It’s just gone 1:30am, designated time for #SuperMoon#BlueMoon and I’ve got up to see it.
Interestingly it’s gone from ‘traditional’ view of the moon (around 10pm) to a very very bright light in the sky! iPhone can’t cope with it, wish I had a better camera.