Posted on 10/02/2020 5:06:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: As you watched October's first Full Moon rise last night, the Full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox, you were probably asking yourself, "How long would it take to bike to the Moon?" Sure, Apollo 11 astronauts made the trip in 1969, from launch to Moon landing, in about 103 hours or 4.3 days. But the Moon is 400,000 kilometers away. This year, the top bike riders in planet Earth's well-known Tour de France race covered almost 3,500 kilometers in 21 stages after about 87 hours on the road. That gives an average speed of about 40 kilometers per hour and a lunar cycling travel time of 10,000 hours, a little over 416 days. While this bike rider's destination isn't clear, his journey did begin around moonrise on September 27 near Cleeve Hill, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, UK.
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Nice.
Full harvest moon
How does one take pictures like that? I saw another one like it recently:
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a-blue-moon-rise-over-cape-byron-lighthouse-in-1038-images
Don’t know about the camera, but you will need Adobe Photoshop at some point in the process.
You use a long zoom lens and have the subject (bicyclist) at a distance to make the background (Moon) look large.
This photo is so fake. Look at the shadows of the bales of hay. The sun makes shadows like this. At a full moon view like this, the sun must be behind the camera and the shadows show that is totally not the case.
Fake is everywhere these days. You can’t believe your eyes most of the time.
“Fake is everywhere these days. You can’t believe your eyes most of the time.”
Heh, just tune in any media.
Any media.
This is SO freaky - but I’ve seen the Moon just like that, but ORANGE, driving north to Eau Claire, WI along the Mississippi River one August night, years ago. (Probably 1992?)
So breathtaking and HUGE, that I pulled over to watch it for a while...thereby avoiding driving OFF the bluffs INTO the Mighty Mississippi! ;)
No camera phones at the time, no digital cameras, no camera other than old-fashioned Instamatic, but it is burned into my brain forever.
We live on the Best. Planet. Ever. Ask any Alien you meet! ;)
OK. Fine. Not every DAY/EVENING of 2020 has sucked. ;)
Saw one like that rise over the Mojave once.
Right place. Right time. Very expensive camera with a very expensive telephoto lens. ;)
I recently upgraded to a Single Lens Reflex Canon SX530HS and while I’m still learning to use it, it’s already blowing my mind! Do I NEED to see every little hair on a bee’s bottom? Why, yes! Yes I do!
It gets great ratings anywhere you want to look. About $350.00. It was a Birthday Gift from Beau this year, though I’ve been ‘shopping’ for it for about 5 years, not wanting to give up my Canon PowerShot A590, which is losing it’s zip and eating batteries, weekly. ;)
I can guarantee you, I was not asking that question at all.
I was asking that question.
How long would it take Jemian to bike to the moon?
I think you could do it in three hours.
Four hours if you’re fighting a headwind.
That sounds great to this overweight, anemic old lady. Three hours it is!
The good news is that it’s all downhill to the moon!
I have had a Canon 5Ti (SLR) for the last 6 years. Love it. I was in DC on the Mall with my daughter and her husband. We were across from the White House South Lawn and the police pull up and stopped all traffic on Constitution Avenue. That’s when I noticed Marine One sitting on the lawn and a rope line of people on either side. The former President was departing. I started taking some pics (using a 200mm lens).
[Side note: Interesting to note the accompanying Marine look-a-like helicopters and a Black Hawk doing circles around DC until it was time for Marine One to lift off at which time they swooped in and escorted Marine One away.]
I continued snapping all the way until after Marine One lifted off and passed directly overhead.
When we got back, I downloaded the pics to my computer and started going through them. I could see every secret service agent on the roof of the White House (I’d wager they probably saw me as well). I could even see what looked like White House staff parting the curtains to look out of the windows. I was able to see a figure in the rear compartment window of Marine One who bore a resemblance to the President but just not enough to say yes or no.
Anyhow, the last few pics were when Marine One was passing directly overhead. I zoomed up and I could see the distinctive red stripe and blue pants of the pilot through the lower window in the cockpit and I could see the water bottle (Evian, I believe) he had in a little holder by his leg. In one of the shots, I zoomed in to his face and even with the aviator shades, I could pick him out of a line up if push came to shove.
Also have a few great shots of the eclipse from a couple of years ago and the lunar eclipse from last year. Amazing camera for a relatively low price.
One question: do you reckon there’s poison ivy on the moon? If there is...
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