Serendipity by ocoee53
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My neighbor Jeff did his annual burning of the pasture yesterday, and I was privileged to record the proceedings. Late in the evening, as I was waiting for the fire line to advance toward me over a hill, I thought I would catch a shot of the crescent moon, which was shining between the passing clouds. I just used the settings I had on the camera instead of adjusting my exposure to get a clear shot of the moon, so the crescent was over-exposed. I did not expect the unmistakable shape of the Pleiades, invisible to my naked eye in the bright moonlight, to be nestled next to the moon. The long exposure also exposed the earth-shine on the shadowed side of the moon, and the lens flare created the diagonal line and phantom crescents above and below the moon that I think are icing on the cake!
I will show several pictures from the burn over the next couple of days.
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Secret Garden
Comments (8)
SoulEatar
Very interesting event - and a nice capture - I guess this is some real moon shine :)
wliebtposer
awesome pic
durleybeachbum
Serendipity indeed, Charles! Marvellous!
watapki66
Very cool shot!
Meisiekind
Oh my - isn't it just the best when you download images and get a surprize like this! Bravo Charles! :)
Erestorfan
Wow! This is awesome, Charles! Very cool shot!!!
TECHNISTRATIONS
For sure Charles; when you go time exposure astro-wise you open Gump's box of chocolates and just never know what you'll get! Great provocative capture! Sometimes over exposures just turn out fine. Some times I like to throw a physical filter on the lens to "background assist" for those phase shifting colors and thus mute the Lunar intensity a bit drawing-out the spectrum for what dominant color might be in the particular star cluster/s within the field of view. The star chart helps dial you to the spot ID's; but unless you have a star chart color spectrum guide it helps to have an Orion catalog or other such reference to give you the best filter choices. This is one place where film and CCD technology often yield very different results even with the same filter, thus making the treasure hunt all the more interesting and exciting! - Never stop looking-up! (Oh if only we were closer to 68 degrees N and could also portry the Northern Lights... but man it was cold enough this past winter!)
auntietk
This is fantastic! Thanks for explaining what you did ... it's fun to know how you made the picture, and that it's a single image and not a manipulation. Really exciting work!