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Lunar eclipse barn

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Posted by TIMERNST on March 3, 2007 at 10:37 PM
I nearly froze to death standing outside trying to get this photo - I was a lot warmer in Montana last month! The wind chill was probably down near zero. This was actually a shot that I stopped and took after I finished up with the normal moonrise shot. I hope everyone got some good ones...(and yes, I did get one of the moon through the barn door that is posted in the Cloudland Journal)
Posted by Tim Buchanan on March 3, 2007 at 11:34 PM
That's pretty cool!! I drove around for an hour looking for that scene! Didn't quite find it :frown: Quite a treat watching our shadow move across the moon.

Posted by Wayne Rhodus on March 4, 2007 at 12:32 AM
Now that's what I'd call a patchwork barn! Looks like you squeezed off this shot a little before the one I posted. And the moon is a little bigger in your frame here Tim .... but then again you live in Arkansas and that's a whole lot closer to the moon than Kansas .... :biggrin:
Posted by TIMERNST on March 4, 2007 at 7:52 AM
Patchwork? Heck that is just the latest style and they had to pay extra for it! The moon is a little bigger here since we are up high and closer to it, although none of that makes any difference - the longer focal length you use, the larger the moon, and also how much you crop. This was taken with a 200mm on a 1.5x crop Nikon, so 300mm, and cropped just a little bit but not much. The other shot on the Journal with the moon showing through the barn door was shot using a 70mm so the moon is a lot smaller. I missed the very best light on this barn - about 10 minutes before it was really lit up with the golden glow of the sunset.
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on March 4, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Actually, after posting my comment about Arkansas being closer to the moon I began to wonder something.

If two photographers with exactly the same rig and focal length setup took a shot of the moon from two different elevations (say 1000 feet difference) at the exact same moment, wouldn't the shot from the higher elevation have the moon larger in the frame?

I know a thousand feet over a couple of hundred thousand miles might be miniscule, but would it make a difference? Inquiring minds want to know .... :smile:
Posted by TIMERNST on March 4, 2007 at 10:56 AM
No, you would never see any difference. It could be measured somehow I'm sure by NASA or the CIA, but not to the naked eye.
Posted by Bill Dark on March 4, 2007 at 12:30 PM
That's a textbook Arkansas barn Tim - although this one is probably in better condtion than most. Nice place to watch the eclipse...great shot.