Posted on 10/10/2021 3:28:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever watched the Moon rise? The slow rise of a nearly full moon over a clear horizon can be an impressive sight. One impressive moonrise was imaged in early 2013 over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. With detailed planning, an industrious astrophotographer placed a camera about two kilometers away and pointed it across the lookout to where the Moon would surely soon be making its nightly debut. The featured single shot sequence is unedited and shown in real time -- it is not a time lapse. People on Mount Victoria Lookout can be seen in silhouette themselves admiring the dawn of Earth's largest satellite. Seeing a moonrise yourself is not difficult: it happens every day, although only half the time at night. Each day the Moon rises about fifty minutes later than the previous day, with a full moon always rising at sunset. This Saturday, October 16, is International Observe the Moon Night, where you observe a first-quarter Moon along with other lunar enthusiasts.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
Thank you. That was way cooler than I expected...
It is a spectacular video, realtime, in 2013. A bit less than three minutes.
That’s beautiful. But I still don’t understand how you achieve photography like that.
“...unedited and shown in real time; it is not a time lapse...”
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Amazing camera work.
Good ‘un.
I call fake. Go ahead yell at me.
But you don’t have a full moon without the opposite side of the earth having a sunset. Exactly 180 degrees opposing.
So where is the ambient light from the sunset behind the camera position ??? Those people on that platform would be sun lit from the camera viewpoint.
To be fair, you can see the moon’s terminator on the left where the shadows are deepest, so it’s not completely full, and the sun likely has already set. Also, brightness dims considerably with a powerful zoom factor, which this was.
New Zealand is very mountainous. A few thousand feet of elevation could account for your concerns.
Big Mike? :-)
So could a smidgen of dickheadery.
That was great thanks for the post!
You are correct. We have a 14,000 foot mountain range just due west of our home and no Sunset light is visible at Moon-rise.
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