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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 17:03:16 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Mar 20, 2011 17:36:40 GMT
I agree Casi, it was so beautifully bright here as well. We had a cloudless night and all of the snow has melted from the lake so the moon lit up the ice on the lake like a mirror. It was gorgeous. Stood out on our deck and looked up and down in awe. Cheers, Mich
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2011 17:54:00 GMT
Night before last, with the moon being closest to the earth I was surveying the skies for this phenomena! We had a lot of cloud so didn't see the moon rise but when it got above the clouds.....WOW! I was disappointed when I took the shots but later when I saw them on my computer they weren't too bad.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 18:09:12 GMT
I didn't get to see the big moon but at least tod2 has immortalized it.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2011 19:02:40 GMT
Immortalizing the moon was an honour Kerouac ;D When I look at the widget I can't see any similarity to the craters and lakes etc. on my shot of the moon two nights ago?? Am I, in the southern hemisphere, looking at a different side of the moon?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2011 19:03:16 GMT
"not too bad" ~~ They are FANTASTIC!!! Last night I looked at the moon and it was discernibly less bright than the night before.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2011 19:05:11 GMT
Why thank you ma'am! I used the same lens that took a shot of the lions back teeth....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 19:29:40 GMT
No, tod2, even in the southern hemisphere, I think you are seeing the same moon as the rest of us. What is different are the constellations. When I went to Mauritius and found Orion almost lying in the water, I was stunned.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 21, 2011 21:01:09 GMT
Beautiful photos. I tried and tried to get even one decent one with my camera and failed miserably. I'll just have to accept there are some things it just can't do. Nice to see proper ones.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2011 2:15:49 GMT
I took some pictures of a blurry round bright thing. They're in the trash.
You know what's really cool? Look at the two o'clock position on Tod's third & fourth pictures. There's a little circle there, and you can see lines radiating from it that go almost around the whole orb.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 22, 2011 5:59:28 GMT
I was also wondering what those little 'artic circles' were......something similar to polar ice caps on Mars??? And the stripes radiating down? Makes the moon look like a melon Thanks for the reply Kerouac - it stands to reason I guess. Mark & Bixa - You will notice the photos with the clouds and moon show no sign of "pock marks" on the surface - just a bright shiny moon. That's because the settings on the camera were totally different to when the cloud moved away for a clear shot with just a black sky and no other reflective influences. Believe me you would laugh at the ones I deleted ! In the first photo with the trees - the 'Xmas' tree on the right is a Pacific Redwood planted on the farm opposite us in about 1940. Before I was born! It still looks like a young sapling.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 14:10:02 GMT
Oh, I'm just knocked out by the last few pics of the moon. Amazing.
and Tod, I think you must have the most outstanding photos of the moon so far on this thread. Wow.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 22, 2011 15:05:25 GMT
Yes, those moon photos are stunning. I've got a tripod for my little pocket camera. I must try using it for some night shots.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 22, 2011 15:29:19 GMT
Youre all very kind and makes the 'fiddling' around with the camera all worthwhile. I would have given my eye teeth to view the moon through a proper telescope! And hey! Look at this photo Wikipedia have used. It has the same 'melon' look my photos have so now I know for sure it wasn't something funny with the lens ;D Biggest thing I noticed was the angle of the moon in the Northern Hemisphere is at different angle! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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Post by thill25 on Mar 22, 2011 18:13:52 GMT
Those are great pics tod...VERY sharp close-ups.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2011 19:02:47 GMT
According to the newspaper, Saturday's "supermoon" appeared 14% larger and 30% brighter than a normal full moon, because at 221,565 miles from Earth, it was the closest it has been since March 1993. Didn't say how long we'll have to wait for it to get this close again...
Fabulous photos, tod.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 22, 2011 19:32:00 GMT
I think I read it'd be 20 years. But I could be wrong.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2011 21:31:12 GMT
I might live to see it then. But I'll be old.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 23, 2011 19:48:15 GMT
Brilliant moon photos Tod2...really breathtaking! <notatalljealousreallysmiley>
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Post by tod2 on Mar 25, 2011 9:59:17 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 25, 2011 10:06:17 GMT
ooooh can I come...?
Don't forget your camera....
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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2011 16:28:42 GMT
don't you know, cheery, that tod's camera is an appendage, not an accessory?
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Post by thill25 on Jun 11, 2011 17:54:57 GMT
Super moon:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2011 18:07:55 GMT
The moon is really an inspirational subject -- basically another planet so close to us that we can admire the mountains and oceans, even if there is no water to be seen.
I bet there aren't all that many other people in the galaxy with such a stunning sight to see almost every night.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2011 22:12:36 GMT
Very nice shots there, thill. This reminds me, now that we are having days of such clear skies, I need to take some new pics of the moon.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 12, 2011 5:12:45 GMT
Lunar eclipse on 15th June...I won't get toooo excited tho. Here in the Northern Hemisphere it will be almost at totality by moonrise! I won't have any chance of catching it with the telescope here in the city because it's just too low. Might make for some interesting landscape photographs out in the countryside I spose...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 19:52:17 GMT
Not always, cheery! I must have spoken too soon, it's gray and rainy for the next few days here.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 15, 2011 14:26:57 GMT
Shall I make you all envious of my ability to see the full lunar eclipse tonight? We don't have the slightest smidgen of moisture anywhere in the sky so that's a big plus for tonight, and according to our local newspaper "Pietermaritzburg residents will be in a prime position to be first witness of tonight's total lunar eclipse". There will be a physicist from the university, Dr Vincent Couling, who will be available to give an expert rundown for those wishing to mosey over there. What makes the 2011 eclipse special is that it should last for 100 minutes which is unusually long. It will start at 7.26pm and end at 12.59am tomorrow. The full eclipse is expected to start at 9.24pm and the moon will start reappearing at 11.02pm. That gives plenty of time to get some good camera shots - well let's hope so!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 15, 2011 14:52:25 GMT
I posted a link on the SKYWATCH thread to an animation of tonite's lunar eclipse, for those of us who won't get to see it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 15, 2011 19:43:47 GMT
Tod...enjoy it for the rest of us sugar... ;D I hope that you get some pics too....
thanks Kimby....
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