Super Moon

[Jonboy]

Go and take a look at the moon its mighty impressive tonight and the closest to Earth it has been for 20 years

[Reid Malenfant]

;) Funny you should say that Jon, it looked huge last night & it wasn't quite full, it really caught my attention as i was going out about 7PM :)

[Rare Bird]

yeh it does look very low

[sparrow]

Late last night out our back was lit up like a Xmas tree..never seen the moon so bright.

[Marco]

The WIRREN are coming - RUN FOR THE HILLS........!!!

Marco.

[Mark Grant]

A quick photo taken a few minutes ago, you would need hell of a lens and really sturdy tripod to get a really good photo.

http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx234/server9/incoming/moon-IMG_9661.jpg

[Jonboy]

you beat me to it thats really good, my camera is sitting on the patio waiting for it to appear over the house for a clear shot

[Mark Grant]

What's the little white thing near the centre of this photo.
Not a hot pixel as it's too big for that.

http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx234/server9/incoming/moon-IMG_9662.jpg

[Reid Malenfant]

How about a star Mark? :scratch:

;)

BTW, that full pic earlier is awesome chap :respect:

[Mark Grant]

Maybe it's a star, not in any of my other photos for some reason.


I need a remote release for my camera as pressing the shutter button makes it wobble even on my tripod.

The big picture is heavily cropped, the original is this one :)

http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx234/server9/incoming/IMG_9661.jpg

[Alex_UK]

Just been out for a gander - not so impressed with the size as to how bright it is - awesome. (Great pic there Mark, if I can be arsed I'll have a go later.)

[Mark Grant]

you beat me to it thats really good, my camera is sitting on the patio waiting for it to appear over the house for a clear shot

It's surprisingly difficult, you should see my first few attempts :)

[Jonboy]

not so impressive as it was when it first came up, i give up with the photos, mine equipment just aint big or long enough, story of my life really

[Alex_UK]

Here's my best effort - not easy to photograph!

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu259/Alex_Steel1969/hifi/IMG_4545a.jpg?t=1300573965

[Jonboy]

The only way i have got near that for close up in the past was with my camera pointing down my telescope, too much light polution in this country

[Macca]

Here's my best effort - not easy to photograph!

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu259/Alex_Steel1969/hifi/IMG_4545a.jpg?t=1300573965

Yep - that's the Moon allright:lol:

'There's a moon in the sky/it's called the Moon'

B52s

[Alex_UK]

I've been waiting for nearly 2 years to be able to link to a relevant rathergood.com page... :)

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song

Sheer genius. Possibly.

[Macca]

I've been waiting for nearly 2 years to be able to link to a relevant rathergood.com page... :)

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song

Sheer genius. Possibly.

Thanks Alex I listened to that for quite a while before I realised it wasn't going to stop...I think it may have fixed my 20 year brain damage problem though:eek:

[Alex_UK]

Thanks Alex I listened to that for quite a while before I realised it wasn't going to stop...I think it may have fixed my 20 year brain damage problem though:eek:

I watched it for nearly 2 years the first time! :lol:

A work of genius in my (twisted) opinion! :)

[Welder]

You need to get out more Alex :doh:

[Fi-Wi]

I need a remote release for my camera as pressing the shutter button makes it wobble even on my tripod.


Just use the self timer if you don't have a release cable/remote around.

[MartinT]

I need a remote release for my camera as pressing the shutter button makes it wobble even on my tripod.

Use delayed shutter (timer) mode, the camera and tripod will be nice and settled when it takes the shot.

[Mark Grant]

Thanks fi-wi and Martin :)

Thats what I do with my compact cameras but I cant find that on my new Canon 60D, I might have to read the manual as it must be well hidden in a menu that I have not found yet. :)

I will buy a wired release sometime as the one I have from my Canon 40D is a different connector.

[Mark Grant]

Found it, page 82 of the manual :doh:

With mirror lockup and 2 second self timer I would have better results.
Its cloudy here tonight so doubt I will see the moon tonight.

[Alex_UK]

Just been outside, and some Pikey must have nicked it - no moon to be seen! :eek:

Guess the scrap value of cheese is sky high these days :rolleyes:

[MartinT]

Nope - I walked out this morning and there it was. They must have moved it.

Have you been watching Wonders of the Universe (Brian Cox)? Just stunning, should be required viewing to put some education into people who think we're the centre of things!

[The Grand Wazoo]

I agree it's a great programme, except for one thing that annoys me a lot. It's the way that the director seems to have decided that the presenter is almost as important as the content - lots of long lingering shots of our Brian posed looking on in wonder at some landscape or skyscape other other.
The recent series about spices seemed to be the same only more so, taking a fascinating subject & turning it into a multi-part series about Kate Humble.

[MartinT]

Yes, I noticed that too. It's offset by the fact that the BBC camera work is generally excellent and makes the shots look marvellous (see Top Gear for generally superb 'cinematography').

What makes this series different is the focus on what Brian Cox is saying, with the minimum of Horizon-like diagrams and animations. It takes a little getting used to and I found myself rewinding a few times with 'what did he say again?' in my mind. It also makes me Wikipedia like mad afterwards, looking up, for instance, the Crab Nebula pulsar.

[Barry]

It was all done so much better, years ago by the late Carl Sagan in his series 'Cosmos'.

I've only watched one of the Brian Cox programmes. Learnt nothing new and quickly became irritated by the 'presenter is more important than the content' approach. And then though about how my license money was being spent/wasted!

[MartinT]

Carl Sagan/Cosmos was superb and I watched them all. Brain Cox was properly revential towards Sagan, showing his book in one clip and stating that it was the reason for him getting into physics.

I have to disagree with you about Cox, the format is the BBC's but Cox uses his time wisely and avoids dumbing down the subject matter within the confines of a BBC2 product (Horizon commits worse sins, I think). There is a great deal that's newly discovered since Sagan's time so I have certainly learned things, and it spurs me on to look up even more.

[Jonboy]

i've not watched one yet as "we" have to watch Z lister Celebrity twats dancing on ice :steam:

[Tim]

Have you been watching Wonders of the Universe (Brian Cox)? Just stunning, should be required viewing to put some education into people who think we're the centre of things!
I wish I could get my 86 year old Dad to watch it, he believes we are the be all and end all of everything, there's nothing else out there but God :scratch:

[MartinT]

Richard Feynman (another hero of mine) said that people invent God to handle all the things that they don't understand. As we make more discoveries in science and increase our understanding of the universe, there becomes less and less need for God.

[Alex_UK]

Nope - I walked out this morning and there it was. They must have moved it.

They bloody well have! Crystal clear out there tonight, and no moon to be seen! :scratch: Am I going mad, blind - or both?

[Wilbur]

"Going" mad??? Too late for that methinks;)

[MartinT]

I love the brain-aching facts that really put a perspective on the universe, such as a supernova explosion emits as much energy in a few days as the Sun emits in its entire life (and the Sun fuses 620 million tons of Hydrogen per second)*; or the gravity at the surface of the resultant neutron star is so strong that an object dropped from 1 metre would accelerate to 5 million miles per hour as it impacted the surface.

*I just worked it out: the average supernova is an explosion of about 200 million million million megatons!