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Gallery: Supermoon 2012

Post by owlice » Sat May 05, 2012 10:23 pm


Please post your supermoon images here.

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Re: Gallery: Supermoon 2012

Post by PeterR » Sat May 05, 2012 10:23 pm

The first picture shows the oversize new Moon tonight (5th of May) above Stockholms Globe Arena making it look like a paler twin.
The second picture is a 270° panorama with the bright moon in the middle of the earth shadow that is the rising dark arch at the opposite side of the sun.
/*Peter Rosén

Link to full size picture: http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pic ... 255870.jpg

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Re: Gallery: Supermoon 2012

Post by VegaStar » Sun May 06, 2012 12:06 am

SuperMoon, Eiffel Tower
05.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
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Post by TNT » Sun May 06, 2012 3:29 am

Here is an amateur close-up picture of the supermoon I took just recently.

Supermoon
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Post by marion165 » Sun May 06, 2012 5:51 am

Super Moon to Super Moon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 147332123/
Copyright 2012 by Marion Haligowski

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Super Moon to Super Moon by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

The "Super Moon to Super Moon" graphic has been a side project that I have been working on for the past fourteen months.

At approximately each full moon (plus or minus a day because of weather) I photographed the moon using an identical set up as to photograph the true size of the lunar disc. Equipment was a Canon EOS t2i and a Sigma 70 to 300 mm lens at 300 mm. Exposures were 1/500 to 1/1250 a second according to cloud cover, transparency, etc. (f/5.6 was used throughout the entire project) The first lunar disc was photographed during the "Super Moon" of 2011. At the time this photo was taken the moon was 356816 km from Earth. On October 11, 2011 the lunar disc reached its minimum size as the lunar distance was 406417 km. Fourteen months after the 2011 "Super Moon" the 2012 Super moon was photographed at a lunar distance of 356959 km.

I am very thankful to live in the desert southwest of the United States during the completion of this project. I only encountered one night of significant cloud cover on the August 13, 2011 full moon. This could cover is typical during the summer monsoon season in Arizona. Fortunately the cover was light enabling a photograph of the lunar disc. If anyone is interested in a similar photo project my advice is to watch the focus ring on the zoom lens carefully! During the November 10 exposure the zoom ring slipped from 300 mm to 270 mm. I was doing the post-processing and nothing was making sense, I realized that the photos on this day were shot at 270 mm and were able to crop them to equal the size of the lunar disc that would be produced at 300 mm. All other full moon apparitions were without complications!

The size difference is minimal even between apogee and perigee. I will be using the images in this slide to make a short movie. The size difference becomes more apparent as the movie is viewed. Note: The image MUST be viewed large to really appreciate the size difference!

A video is now available at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 001444030/

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Post by owlice » Sun May 06, 2012 11:14 am

Colors of the Supermoon
Copyright: Amirreza Kamkar
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Moonrise over Mt. Holyoke
http://www.ast.smith.edu/james/download ... 050183.JPG
Copyright: James Lowenthal
[attachment=3]lowenthal.jpg[/attachment]Video here: https://vimeo.com/41753885

Moon over Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo
Copyright: Luiza Whitaker
[attachment=2]Ibirapuera moonrise.jpg[/attachment]

Moonrise over the Wasatch Mountains
Copyright: Duke Johnson
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Supermoonrise over Mount Wilson Observatory
Copyright: Dave Jurasevich
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Post by owlice » Sun May 06, 2012 2:07 pm

Barceluna
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Copyright: Claudi Martínez
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Post by RJN » Sun May 06, 2012 2:21 pm

Other Supermoon 2012 Galleries:

Spaceweather: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2012
Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -form.html
Space.com: http://www.space.com/15561-supermoon-20 ... mages.html

If you know of other Supermoon 2012 galleries, please post them here!

- RJN

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Post by Tamas Abraham » Sun May 06, 2012 2:49 pm

Setting Perigee Moon
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Post by StefanoDeRosa » Sun May 06, 2012 4:09 pm

2012 Super Moon on colorful sky
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa The 5th of May Super Moon captured among fast moving clouds that acted as natural filter during the exposure and created a beatiful colorful corona.

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Post by Ayiomamitis » Sun May 06, 2012 7:21 pm

Super Full Moon Over Cape Sounion (2012)
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Post by Bi2L » Sun May 06, 2012 8:36 pm

Old Fortress of Corfu and Super Moon

Full Moon- Super Moon just about one houre ago!!
Hope you like it :D
Here in HiRe: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=14754

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Post by LocalColor » Mon May 07, 2012 12:38 am

Moonrise over Golden Gate May 5, 2012 in Central Idaho

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40 seconds later and different exposure...
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Post by Seantos » Mon May 07, 2012 12:45 am

Last night's supermoon in Tucson, AZ

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People on the Moon!

Post by ChrisKotsiopoulos » Mon May 07, 2012 12:52 am

Temple of Poseidon, Sounio, Greece. The shot was taken with an 8 inch Dobsonian telescope. Well... Yes, it's true! You can actually take a photo with a dob!
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Post by owlice » Mon May 07, 2012 1:04 am

Super Moon from a Delta Flight
Copyright: Bruce Borich
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Post by Mila » Mon May 07, 2012 4:56 am

ChrisKotsiopoulos wrote:Temple of Poseidon, Sounio, Greece. The shot was taken with an 8 inch Dobsonian telescope. Well... Yes, it's true! You can actually take a photo with a dob!
:mrgreen:
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http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/moo ... ioPano.htm
Very nice images, the best I've seen so far. I like these much better than today's APOD.
Here are few of mine: Moonrise over San Francisco photographed on May 5,2012

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A higher resolution is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35300356@N ... /lightbox/

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A higher resolution is here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/7151 ... 3dc7_b.jpg

Here's another image, the Moon is resting at Golden Gate Bridge:
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A higher resolution is here http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7210/7003 ... ae87_b.jpg There's a bird, probably brown pelican flying over.

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Post by llaveder » Mon May 07, 2012 9:11 am

Hi!
my contribution to this Supermoon gallery. First of all, don't miss this video of the whole sequence (one picture every 6 s):
https://vimeo.com/41670884

When it appeared at the horizon, it displayed a green flash (on the left, near the red beacon):
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Then, it rose quickly:
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Thank you for your attention! :o)
Laurent Laveder, Made in France
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Post by owlice » Mon May 07, 2012 10:53 am

Good Night, Supermoon
http://www.ncastro.org/Pix/Laszlo_D/201 ... erMoon.htm
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Post by templec » Mon May 07, 2012 1:10 pm

2012 Super Moon
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Post by owlice » Tue May 08, 2012 1:02 am

Supermoon over Argentia
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Post by bystander » Sat May 12, 2012 12:13 am

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Post by Bi2L » Sat May 19, 2012 11:11 am

Hello again, I've got one more Supermoon here :D

here in high quality: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=14811
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Corfu old Fortress & Supermoon
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