The camera really had no idea what to do as it hunted back and forth searching for the subject in its view. One moment the subtle textures of the moon would appear, only to then bloom out into a white ball as tree branches appeared in sharp relief. The next moment neither could be seen […]
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Our first full moon for the new year and it just happens to be a ‘supermoon’. Not that there is anything really special about a supermoon other than appearing around 10% larger due to the moon’s elliptic orbit and the chance that the full moon coincides with the narrow part of its orbit. Supermoons happen […]
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This is a phase of the moon I rarely see and have never photographed before for reasons that will become obvious. After an unsuccessful imaging night thwarted with intermittent high cloud and unwanted car headlights we finally gave up around 1:15am. As we were packing up a very yellow half moon crept over the eastern […]
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The other night I captured this image of the waxing moon and published a single (out of the camera) image taken at 1/160s, f/9 iso100. On that same night I took a short sequence of 30 images at 1/160s, f/11 to try and avoid the highlight blowouts. From these I picked the best 20, stacked […]
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The only thing we generally see different from night to night when we look to the moon is its own shadow progressing across its face. That familiar pock marked disk of craters and ridges never changes. As for the ‘dark side of the moon’, it is the Moon’s dark side day of our tidal side’s […]
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