Skywatch Friday - Supermoon 2013

 

 

Tonight is the perigee full moon for 2013.  This is also known as the supermoon. You can read more about the supermoon here.

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The winter moon slowly sinking behind the gum trees at

Kaurna Watlands Park, Burton, South australia 

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While waiting for the queen Mary 2 to arrive, the moon popped out from behind the clouds.

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A fine crescent, just a couple og days before the new moon.

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Early Evening, Gluepot Reserve, Riverland, South Australia.

The Moon

Tonight there was an amazing full moon, and some very eerie cloud shapes. I tried getting some photos, but the only way to get the cloud even remotly was to overexpose by so much that the moon overpowered everything else.

So I concentrated on the moon, and got a reasonable shot by underexposing by 2 stops using my telephoto zoom at its full range (400mm)

Next I added my 1.4x extender.

and finally added another extender (2x this time) giving a total of 400mm x 1.4 x 2 = 1120mm.