Monday, February 9, 2009

Full Moon Tonight

We took these pictures on Saturday, not quite a full moon. If we're lucky it'll be clear tonight so we can try to get more shots, but it's cloudy right now.


J used a long exposure on these:


Isn't the moon amazing? It looks as though a big rock hit it down in the lower right area and shock waves are emanating out from the crater. And what about the bright spots...moon cities?

It's 31 degrees, a few flakes falling from grey skies at 12:00 pm.

3 comments:

janet copenhaver said...

J did good on those moon shots. I expect he used a tripod. I still haven't been able to capture any shots even close to yours.
What exposure time did he use?
I will learn to do it one of these days. I know you can get photos of the moon anywhere, but darn it I want my own. :)

Gnome said...

I got it wrong, actually he used a very fast shutter speed and a low f-stop to compensate, to underexpose the picture. The camera was trying to overexpose it. We just got the tripod recently, so we're having fun experimenting with it.

Slammy said...

wow... i could just stare at those pics all day.