Super Moon

was wondering if anyone is gonna be shooting the Super Moon that will be happening on 19 March 2011 this year?

As I said in another post.

No point.

1) Full Moon is the worst time to try to take a photo (well, apart from New Moon).

2) It will look the same as other other New Moon. It will be about 0.6% closer than April's Full Moon (356580 vs 358798) km.

ha ha...the media has to have something to get everyone excited about.

Wow... you have photos of the moon, from the f u t u r e? WOW

Give the guy a break,
The average person in their lifetime may only get too see 800 to 900 full moons.

Due to a little understood optical effect called the moon illusion. The full moon can seem huge when rising behind distant objects on the horizon.
A super moon could appear especially impressive.

So, Jason shoot a way and hang them where you can enjoy them everyday

Hey, I'm making a special trip to shoot the moon tomorrow. I am pretty excited about it. It may not be much for shooting shooting only the moon, but if you want to use the moon compositionally in a scene, there hasn't been a better moon for this, in over 20 years.

That's the way I look at it.

I'm curious. When is the best time to take a picture of a full moon? I live in the midwest and its seems that it's best to try and shoot it in the early morning hours before sunrise?

Todd Lambert wrote in post #12043633
Wow... you have photos of the moon, from the f u t u r e? WOW

You should see the ones from after the minor mishap in 2036!

LOL! I suppose you picked up a 1DsMk6 too!

Claytoon wrote in post #12043903
Give the guy a break,
The average person in their lifetime may only get too see 800 to 900 full moons.

Actually, I'd be surprised if the average person actually 'saw' even half that number. The city-dwellers I've spoken to about things like this very rarely know what the current pahse of the Moon is, nor do they care.

Claytoon wrote in post #12043903
Due to a little understood optical effect called the moon illusion. The full moon can seem huge when rising behind distant objects on the horizon.

Actually, the illusion is fairly well understood. One of the key points is that you don't need distant objects on the horizon to see the illusion. Even with a featureless horizon the Full Moon will still look a lot bigger when it's low in the sky.

It happens because our brains don't think the sky is a hemispherical bowl, but a flattened bowl. We know that stuff on the horizon is a long, long way away - we can see distant objects looking very small and we know it takes a long time to walk there. However, things directly overhead aren't very far away at all - birds above us in the sky are quite close compared to the horizon.

So, when we see the Moon near the horizon our brains 'know' that it's a long way away. When it's above us it's not so far away. But in both situations it has the same apparent size, and two objects with the same apparent size but at different distances must have different actual sizes - the distant object must be larger.

Buylongterm wrote in post #12044151
I'm curious. When is the best time to take a picture of a full moon? I live in the midwest and its seems that it's best to try and shoot it in the early morning hours before sunrise?

IMHO, never

Getting a decent amount of contrast is difficult which results in it taking on the featureless appearance of the sun i.e. only interesting in relation to the foreground you shoot it with.

IF you can get it VERY low on a misty/dusty horizon at dawn or dusk then I take that back, because you might then be able to see some detail on it.

Or you can use its illumination.....

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Pah! Call that a Supermoon? Bloody kids of today are so easily impressed, but I've just popped out to look at it and it's not a patch on 1993. Now that was a Supermoon.

hollis_f wrote in post #12046528
Pah! Call that a Supermoon? Bloody kids of today are so easily impressed, but I've just popped out to look at it and it's not a patch on 1993. Now that was a Supermoon.

Trust me, kids my age (middle school) wouldn't give a damn if they heard anything like this... except for me who is too easily excited. If only my friends knew about my hobbies...

i was taking pics last night when a guy told me the moon looks largest just before it sets. He's been seeing it the last few nights and says it appears huge.

hollis_f wrote in post #12044487
Actually, the illusion is fairly well understood. One of the key points is that you don't need distant objects on the horizon to see the illusion. Even with a featureless horizon the Full Moon will still look a lot bigger when it's low in the sky.

It happens because our brains don't think the sky is a hemispherical bowl, but a flattened bowl. We know that stuff on the horizon is a long, long way away - we can see distant objects looking very small and we know it takes a long time to walk there. However, things directly overhead aren't very far away at all - birds above us in the sky are quite close compared to the horizon.

So, when we see the Moon near the horizon our brains 'know' that it's a long way away. When it's above us it's not so far away. But in both situations it has the same apparent size, and two objects with the same apparent size but at different distances must have different actual sizes - the distant object must be larger.

I don't buy it. I guess it would be easy enough to check though. Use a finger or a ruler. Hold the same distance from your eye at both positions (low on horizon and high in the sky.) and measure.