Highest position: 117 on Friday, November 6, 2009
I love studying the Moon. It looks different each time I see it,
because as it moves along it's orbit around the Earth, the sunlight
shining on it catches it at a different angle all the time. It looks
beautiful and spectacular when it's full and shining and round, but I
prefer it when the sun is shining on it at a more oblique angle and
you can see the high walls of craters which look so spectacular.
I've always wanted to take a good photo of the Moon, but with a
compact I hadn't managed to. When I bought my new compact with a
better zoom, I hoped I would be able to manage it, but at night it
just comes out at a bright shape with no detail.
At the moment, the Moon is rising late in the evening and setting in
the afternoon of the following day, so I've had an opportunity to
photograph it during the day which works a lot better. I'm pleased
with this shot showing details of several seas and lots of craters on
the terminator which is where the lit part meets the unlit part of
the Moon. Gibbous is an old word for 'humped' and is the term used for
the Moon between a full Moon and the Third Quarter. The Moon is 63%
illuminated here.
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See here for another Moon shot.
tiwiq, newlune, Linda in S.C., Daskalakis Nikos, and 33 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Caroline Lopes. 42 months ago | reply
gorgeous.
albpat14 41 months ago | reply
Bello scatto
berkuspic 40 months ago | reply
Really great shot! Congrats!!!
echobase5 40 months ago | reply
It is really hard to capture the moon in the daylight. Well thats what i find anyway. You have done a great job here. Well done!