Actually, I was using TPE and found that North Table Mountain would be the perfect place to shoot from and have the moon rise over downtown Denver. I don't have a long lens though so I won't be attempting.
Posted by Jim Bennett on March 19, 2011 at 7:16 PM
I'll be out with some friends in a park in Highlands Ranch taking moon photos, assuming that the high clouds clear out in time...
Posted by Pam Colander on March 19, 2011 at 7:54 PM
I'm going to use the Raton Mesa as my horizon point. I'm gonna drive a short way from the house so I can have an unobstructed view. Hope I get some good ones and good luck to you Jim. Too bad you can't get your hands on a tele Jason :-(
I wanted to, but we've had pesky cloud cover off & on all day, and right now it's on
Posted by Amy Lindsey on March 19, 2011 at 9:36 PM
The moon is beautiful here in the Midwest! There's a slight haze, but it makes it look kinda cool. Too busy watching Butler beat Pittsburg to actually shoot the moon.
Good luck to all those who are more motivated than me!
Was it just me? Or was the Perigee moon tonight not ginormous, but actually looked smaller than a usual full moon? Maybe my expectations were too high. Like when someone tells you how great a movie is and when you go and see it, and it is not that great? Last month's moon was ginormous compared to tonight.
Posted by Nate Zeman on March 19, 2011 at 11:56 PM
Just got done taking some photos up here in Breck. Beautiful Night!
Posted by Erik Aagaard on March 20, 2011 at 1:00 AM
Supermoon in the palm of our daughter's hands! I should have bumped up the ISO and stopped down from the f/5.6 aperture - maybe the moon would have been sharper. We had fun nevertheless.
We had a gorgeous orange supermoon rise over the Devon coast last night. We went out to a peninsula where we had a great view. I don't have a computer with me so I can't post until we get back.
It was a beautiful LARGE moon over the Nations Capitol last night. Like Erik mentioned the moon had a nice glow early on. Well over 100 photographers at the Iwo Jima Memorial overlooking Washington DC. Clear sky and warm temperatures made it a great evening. Andrew
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM
I was going to say something earlier in the week, and I contemplated posting that link as soon as I saw it a few days ago, but then I thought, hey, if it takes false hype about a lunar event to get a bunch of us out there enjoying our craft, does it really matter?
The biggest moon I ever saw was at the Tool concert at Red Rocks last year, however my vision and memory that night might have been slightly impaired
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 20, 2011 at 10:23 PM
That's a coincidence. Some of the biggest tools I've ever seen were at concerts at Red Rocks!
Posted by Pam Colander on March 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM
For all you composite haters, look no further. As I was prepping to shoot the Perigee moon, I was really hoping to get it while it was still a twilight sky. According to TPE, the moon was supposed to rise at about 7:37pm which would've worked for that scenario. It ended up rising more like 8:10 which was pretty much full dark skies. So, I took a few exposures of the Raton Mesa while it was actually twilight in case I wanted to play with a composite. I also went ahead and took the moon when it did rise. These two photos were taken at the same focal length so the size of the moon is accurate. I got some good shots up to 600mm just of the moon too but great ones like that have already been posted. I'll try for the real deal sometime this summer when twilight lasts longer. I have to say the Ephemeris was dead on as to the location of the moonrise...thanks for the heads up on that neat little tool Grant C It was fun times, a couple that also live on the ranch stopped by with beer! No, this wasn't taken through beer goggles...I don't drink beer!
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 21, 2011 at 7:34 PM
White wine by the box then?
IMO, a half-hour difference between sunset and moonrise is just too great for film or sensors to amply record the discrepancy. For all intents and purposes, a half hour might as well be midnight, especially when trying to pair twilight with a sunlit moon. Friday would've been the optimal day this time around. And the moon was still very close to perigee (still is).
Posted by Pam Colander on March 21, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Oh yeah, if ya don't get it in the fleeting moments of twilight, all you're shooting is the moon.
Hi Pam - probably worth clarifying this one. Moonrise (and sunrise, sunset, moonset etc.) are timed relative to the "true horizon", i.e. the place you'd be able to see if none of them thar hills were in the way, which is what appears to be case with your image above.
By the time you were able to see the moon clear of the hills, it sounds like it was long after actual moonrise. (You can use the grey pin in TPE to work out when the moon would appear from behind the hill, more or less.)
Easiest way to think about it, I find, is this: if you were standing on the west side of your house in the shade until lunchtime, would it still be fair to say the sun hadn't risen? Not really. Same with the moon when it's tucked away behind a hill.
No supermoon visible here in Sydney - nothing but clouds and rain (but some nice storm light too, for a while...)
Posted by Pam Colander on March 23, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Hey thanks Stephen! Yeah, I figured the discrepancy was due to the mesa. Didn't know about the grey pin
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24 repliesGood luck to all those who are more motivated than me!
Had one helluva day today, though!!
IMO, a half-hour difference between sunset and moonrise is just too great for film or sensors to amply record the discrepancy. For all intents and purposes, a half hour might as well be midnight, especially when trying to pair twilight with a sunlit moon. Friday would've been the optimal day this time around. And the moon was still very close to perigee (still is).
White wine is good
By the time you were able to see the moon clear of the hills, it sounds like it was long after actual moonrise. (You can use the grey pin in TPE to work out when the moon would appear from behind the hill, more or less.)
Easiest way to think about it, I find, is this: if you were standing on the west side of your house in the shade until lunchtime, would it still be fair to say the sun hadn't risen? Not really. Same with the moon when it's tucked away behind a hill.
No supermoon visible here in Sydney - nothing but clouds and rain (but some nice storm light too, for a while...)