Once in a Super Blue Blood Moon...

[Dominic]

Tonight at around 5:20 should be good.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/cyprus/paphos

[Dominic]

And I will expect some pictures from you Max!

[cyprusmax47]

Just wait and see!

[Dominic]

I took some practice shots last night but it was so bright I just got a big white disc.

[PaphosAL]

Experiment by trying faster exposure times in manual mode, Dom. And maybe smaller apertures.

AL

[Alfie]

I was disappointed when I learned that blue moons were neither blue nor particularly uncommon.

[ApusApus]

Unfortunately, cloud cover over the NE sky this evening obscured the view from my villa!


Shane

[PaphosAL]

That's always Sod's Law in regard to major one-off astromical events, Shane, even in Cyprus! Par for the course here in UK, though...

Be patient and wait for a gap in the clouds, m8. Full moon will be up there all night long!

AL

[cyprusmax47]

That's always Sod's Law in regard to major one-off astromical events, Shane, even in Cyprus! Par for the course here in UK, though...

Be patient and wait for a gap in the clouds, m8. Full moon will be up there all night long!

AL

Yeah, exactly, as soon as the eclipse was finished the bloody moon came out of the clouds. So the impression is a normal one unfortunately...



waiting for Dominic's pic if he was more lucky...

Max

[Dominic]

All I can say is WOW.

I did not expect that.
 

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[cyprusmax47]

but this one is more blue....or had I too much Whisky with my dinner?, which was cold until I finished playing with the camera..



Max

[PaphosAL]

@Dom: This moon photography is beginning to come back to me after nearly three decades. When experimenting with different exposure speed and aperture settings on your camera, it's important to have a notepad and pen handy, so you can log these settings picture by picture, then remember them for next photo shoot.

AL

[PaphosAL]

Absolutely brilliant full moon photos, Max! You need to share your camera settings with Dom!

AL

[cyprusmax47]

Absolutely brilliant full moon photos, Max! You need to share your camera settings with Dom!

AL

NO tripod, but a couple of whiskies, that's my setting

[Dominic]

I have taken moon pictures before Al.

[Kili01]

I saw the moon just now. As I live in an area with very little light polution I had a good view. I didn’t try to photograph it, but it looks huge and was a pale colour with a blueish halo around it.

Dee

[PaphosAL]

I've just tried taking a full moon shot from my Samsung Galaxy 5 through the right lens of my Swift 8X40 binoculars. Failed miserably, unfortunately. Too much whisky this afternoon, probably...

But Max's shots are astonishing for their surface detail, better than many I've seen in astro books! Somwhere on his photos, upper right of the disc, is a feature known as the Alpine Valley. Runs dead straight between two mountain ranges for 40km. Amazing!

AL

[Dominic]

Out of curiosity, how would you expect two shots of the same thing to differ?

[cyprusmax47]

I might be cynical but it looks like Max has doctored his original moon shot as they are both the same. Apart from the colour.

I don't understand what you are meaning with "doctored"

The first pic was done 6.43 pm, the second after I finished my dinner at 7.25 pm. The second one is less blurred as the sky was more clear then.
Both pics with 100x electronic zoom, no tripod. (altogether I took 25 pics and many of them were rubbish)

Max

[Dominic]

If you superimpose the two images, and line up the two moons using the two dark spots at the base, you can clearly see they are not the same picture.

They are both of the moon, so yes, they will look the same, but they are not identical.
 

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