Yeah, I know...it's everywhere.

 

I went down to the clubhouse near my house and shot it over the water.  This is a vertical composite.  I shot the water, lifted up and shot the moon.

 

Canon 80D with my 150-600mm lens at 600mm.  

 

awesome shot.

Thanks...took that at about 6pm tonight.   The moon had just cleared the trees on the ridge on the other side of the lake.  The cool thing is you can see the shadows of the trees in the water on the other side of the lake.

 

I also have a 30 second exposure of the water but it was way too smooth and frankly blown out.  That moon is bright tonight!

Nice Mark. Unfortunately it's cloudy here tonight

Very nice shot, would look good framed.

Its a round ball of cheese.

I can see the moon through the clouds here in Tampa Bay, but it doesn't appear to be any larger... brighter, yes, but not larger.

 

 

I am pretty sure it will be the biggest tomorrow morning.

I am pretty sure it will be the biggest tomorrow morning.

 

We'll see.  This morning, it was overcast. Couldn't see a thing.  Up at 6:40a tomorrow.

That's a beautiful shot.

Great shot. I took my telescope out last night to get a good look. I have a great moon filter for it but no photographic ability and my wife wasn't home. So no pics.

Great shot. I took my telescope out last night to get a good look. I have a great moon filter for it but no photographic ability and my wife wasn't home. So no pics.

 

Thanks.  It was a big moon, but this is a massive(4lb) zoom lens that makes it look huge.   My tripod is a piece of garbage and even with a 10 second countdown timer, it was STILL shaking slightly.   I'm going to have to finally buy a decent Manfrotto.

 

I shot it on Manual.

F/6.3, ISO100, 1/400, 600mm(960mm@35mm equivalent)

Malsua:

 

https://youtu.be/o9mJ82x_l-E?t=55s

 

It was YUUUUUUGE and orange this morning.  Glad I got to see it.

Nothing for us, here in Tampa Bay.  Total cloud cover. 

Nothing for us, here in Tampa Bay.  Total cloud cover. 

In New Port Richey- same

Thanks.  It was a big moon, but this is a massive(4lb) zoom lens that makes it look huge.   My tripod is a piece of garbage and even with a 10 second countdown timer, it was STILL shaking slightly.   I'm going to have to finally buy a decent Manfrotto.

 

I shot it on Manual.

F/6.3, ISO100, 1/400, 600mm(960mm@35mm equivalent)

Try using mirror lockup and a cable release.  You really also need to significantly underexpose that big bright blob  Time exposure of the moon can be problematic as the earth is moving at about 1,000 miles per hour so even if you lock the camera on a perfectly still platform it is still moving in relationship to the moon.

Try using mirror lockup and a cable release.  You really also need to significantly underexpose that big bright blob  Time exposure of the moon can be problematic as the earth is moving at about 1,000 miles per hour so even if you lock the camera on a perfectly still platform it is still moving in relationship to the moon.

 

I tried a number of different exposure settings and Fstops until I got something reasonable.    Every time I was touching the fiddling with exposure or whatever, I was shifting the frame a little.    I finally had something decent, shot, shifted the exposure, lifted, shot.   I actually wanted to try stacking like 10 shots of the moon itself but the shitty tripod won and I gave up. heh.   I have a really good studio tripod at work, but I only have this crappy cheapy at home. 

It just set here.

 

 

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Just for the sake of completeness, I wasn't able to get a shot on the night it was at perigee and full, but I took this picture on Saturday while it was still waxing gibbous.

 

Wow - that's a pretty one.

Wow - that's a pretty one.

 

Thanks...in some ways it has more character than a full moon.  Specially when everyone and their brother is currently photoshopping them into everything. heh.   Some are pretty funny.  I saw one of those 50's movie covers with everyone running while looking back and there was the supermoon.

For long exposures you can use an equatorial telescope mount thats motorized. Kind of pricey but if you do a lot of night sky shots it cold be worth it. Have to align it though. New fangled scopes have one touch auto alignment.

 

Did some of that a long time ago with a low end Nikon EM.

 

 

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Here it is on Monday night...above the clouds at 28,000 feet between Newark & Norfolk.

 

 

 

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