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Super Moon

JAK
Posted 14/11/2016 - 23:42 Link
Well someone had to do it! 10.15pm GMT tonight.
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davidwozhere
Posted 15/11/2016 - 00:56 Link
I had it all lined up to rise directly behind Coventry Cathedral with compass bearings, precise times, the lot. It was covered with low cloud! Grumpy, grumpy !
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JAK
Posted 15/11/2016 - 01:15 Link
I was hoping to get it on the horizon around 4.30 but it was just too cloudy then.
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alfpics
Posted 15/11/2016 - 10:00 Link
Grey here all day yesterday and grey today as well! Thanks for the link to the time and date site David; looks an interesting site.
Andy
vic cross
Posted 15/11/2016 - 10:01 Link
I woke up at 5.00am to go for a pee. It was like daylight through the window. There it was in a gap in the clouds and there it was big and bright. By the time I went and got my camera it was covered in cloud with no break in the cloud in the direction it was travelling. The room went dark again SO I had my pee and went back to bed.
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petrochemist
Posted 15/11/2016 - 10:23 Link
vic cross wrote:
It was like daylight through the window.

It was like that on Sunday night for us, but last night the cloud was so thick there was never even a glimpse of it.
If it had been visible I would have tried some moon lit landscapes on the way back from camera club. IMO that's where a 'supermoon' works best.
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Algernon
Posted 15/11/2016 - 11:03 Link
Very easy to cheat on this one! ...... Just put a 2X TC on your lens and photograph a normal moon I call it a Beaver Moon

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JAK
Posted 15/11/2016 - 11:46 Link
One thing I find odd is that we're told the moon is gradually getting further away from the earth, yet here it is closer than it has been for many decades.
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petrochemist
Posted 15/11/2016 - 12:16 Link
JAK wrote:
One thing I find odd is that we're told the moon is gradually getting further away from the earth, yet here it is closer than it has been for many decades.

That's simple.
The moon is on average moving away by about 3cm a year IIRC. Orbital eccentricity is a MUCH greater amount varying the distance by thousands of kilometers between closest & furthest point s on the orbit.
The gradual drift outwards only becomes significant over very long timescales - cameras will no doubt evolve considerably before it adds up to a whole meter
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JAK
Posted 15/11/2016 - 12:58 Link
petrochemist wrote:
The gradual drift outwards only becomes significant over very long timescales - cameras will no doubt evolve considerably before it adds up to a whole meter

That has crossed my mind but one hears 'scientists' on the radio and TV saying it is a definite amount each year with statements such as, "The result is that the Moon is being pushed away from Earth by 1.6 inches (4 centimetres) per year and our planet's rotation is slowing."
No mention of elliptical orbits ! However, if the basis for that is correct, the metre you suggest is only two decades away. I wonder how much cameras will evolve in that timescale.
Interesting quote here: http://www.universetoday.com/112450/why-is-the-moon-leaving-us/
"The moon is moving away because it is sick of the blue & green colors of Earth."
John K
Gwyn
Posted 15/11/2016 - 14:15 Link
Algernon wrote:
Very easy to cheat on this one! ...... Just put a 2X TC on your lens and photograph a normal moon I call it a Beaver Moon

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Or just crop the photo tighter.


There was no sign of a moon or it's light here. In fact it is so dark here today I do wonder if the sun is sulking at the moon getting all the attention and stayed in bed.

There are some wonderful photos of the moon, good and bad on the guardian website today, ans some from yesterday too.
SteveEveritt
Posted 15/11/2016 - 19:23 Link
Miraculously the cloud thinned enough for me to get this last night at about 11pm

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