Shooting the Moon
About every 18 years or so, the Moon passes about 50,000 km closer to the Earth producing the effect of the Moon appearing on average 14% larger and 30% brighter in the night sky. This phenomenon is known as the Super Full Moon or Perigee. Yesterday evening and early this morning, this phenomenon occurred once again; the last such event was in March of 1993.
Being such a rare event, I wanted see what I could capture on “film”. So, I ventured outside to the front yard and setup my tripod while I patiently waited the Moon to rise above the cluttered visual noise of palm trees and homes that obscured the eastern horizon. I pulled out the Nikon D7000 and mounted it on the tripod and began setting the camera up the way I figured I would need it to be before the waning light of dusk disappeared for good. I set the camera to “full auto” and “auto” for the ISO mode then set my 18-200 mm lens to manual focus. I thought, naively so, that this would be enough to produce acceptable results… however, I quickly discovered I was wrong.
, because it appears, the Facebook community is more important than the excited Uncle waiting patiently for pictures and news. So all you Facebook’ers out there, if you want to see more…
