Super Moon, March 19, 2011 by dcarvell
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Description
Brightness taken down and contrast enhanced in The Gimp.
Comments (6)
bmac62
Nicely done. I learned a lot about my camera, my long lenses, my tripod and manual settings taking pictures of the moon.
rainbows
Beautiful moon capture, Excellent work. Diane.
prutzworks
great shot still learning astrophotography your pic is my goal
morningglory
Stunning details.
tennesseecowgirl
I am curious what type of camera and lense you shot this with, I tried to get some shots of the moon tonight, and have what I would call decent results but not much detail like your image is. Very nice.
dcarvell
I appreciate everyone's comments. Tennessee, I use a cheap Canon SX Powershot 12mp (can't recall exactly). I used a tripod and zoomed all the way in. I use a two second delay to minimize camera shake. If I were more skillful in my use of unsharp mask, I might have minimized the noise in this image. Interestingly (at least for my fellow nerds), I got a little suspicious that it was not a completely full moon. If you look in the upper left, you can see it's ever so slightly dimmer than the rest. I thought it must surely be my imagination, but my brother (a fellow nerd) told me that he read it is slightly gibbous. I might not have noticed had I not postprocessed it. I suppose the moon is only truly full for an instant before it goes the other way.