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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Supermoon!

I took this picture earlier this evening of the "supermoon" I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look that much bigger to me.
 
If anybody's interested in the technical details...

Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Speed 1/800
Aperature: f/5.6
ISO speed rating: 400
Focal length: 300 mm

Believe it or not, the moon was behind some thin clouds, so I sharpened the image a little and also increased the contrast and resized it using GIMP.
 
Thank you. I've tried, but I've never been able to get a good picture of the moon before now. I think the problem was that they were always overexposed. This time, I just tried messing with the exposure until I got it right.
 
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Supermoon!

I took this picture earlier this evening of the "supermoon" I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look that much bigger to me.

Right now, the moon is the closest it gets at about 357,000 kilometers (within about 1500 miles), it can be up to some 407,000 kilometers away. That means that it's 87% as far away now as it is when it's "all the way out there".

Here are two full moons, one at apogee, one at perigee:
View attachment 1842
So you see, there IS some difference!
 
Right now, the moon is the closest it gets at about 357,000 kilometers (within about 1500 miles), it can be up to some 407,000 kilometers away. That means that it's 87% as far away now as it is when it's "all the way out there".

Here are two full moons, one at apogee, one at perigee:
View attachment 2061
So you see, there IS some difference!

I know there is a difference. It's just that when I go out to look at it, I don't notice the difference. It's not as much as I thought it would be, given all the hype.
 
It was brighter here, and had a nice aura, but I agree that it didn't really seem any bigger. :shame I've seen some huge moons before and this one just didn't seem as large as I expected it to be.
 
I love seeing the moon any day, but that night it was so beautiful! I didn't know anything about it until after I saw the moon, and wondered why it looked so big and bright.

I wish it was like that more often!
 
You can do a pretty good exposure with the f16 rule. Set your shutter speed to the DIN rating you're using, set the aperture to f16, and shoot away.

That's the "bright sunlight" rule. Of course, the moon is actually dark grey, so if you might want to bracket one stop on either side to get it right.
 
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