Full Moonrise Closest To Summer Solstice
ꒌ ИЗЛАЗАК ПУНОГ МЕСЕЦА, последњег пред летњу дугодневицу 21. јуна 2022.
► █░▓ At 22:58, this is ALMOST AN HOUR into the twilight (sun has set at 22:00 sharp gorgeously, I'll post an image). The actual moonrise was 16 minutes before this very moment, but to me the ideal horizon is blocked by buildings and trees so I had to wait. In those 16 minutes the moon has traveled 3° to the south and 2° up from the horizon where it had appeared at 137° southeast. Some cloud formation came handy to give an illusion here that it's a real moonrise. Full moon is 99,8% here today (on 14 June 2022), six days left to summer solstice. By the end of the night the illuminated part will wane down to 99,2%. Believe it or not, a difference of already 0,3% (when the moon reached the highest point on the sky due south in the middle of the night), can already be perceived by the naked eye.
To my disappointment I can't spot the moon at SE due to set there at 5:40, either the sky is too bright already (sun rises soon at 5:20) or the clouds or mist are blocking it low on the horizon.
Aperture priority, set fully open for the longest throw of this zoom lens. Handheld, supported by the balcony railing. For the full frame equivalent of 800mm not a bad result with the shutter speed of a 1/13 of a second. Soon after this I lowered the ISO from 3200 to 400 and obtained the same handheld result with 1/2.5 sec and much less noise. But the yellow moon had by then already emerged from the mystical clouds. And became the true moon - here it resembles the sun actually.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 1.10.5. Cropped at the top and bottom to fit the 16 by 9 format.
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Full Moonrise Closest To Summer Solstice
ꒌ ИЗЛАЗАК ПУНОГ МЕСЕЦА, последњег пред летњу дугодневицу 21. јуна 2022.
► █░▓ At 22:58, this is ALMOST AN HOUR into the twilight (sun has set at 22:00 sharp gorgeously, I'll post an image). The actual moonrise was 16 minutes before this very moment, but to me the ideal horizon is blocked by buildings and trees so I had to wait. In those 16 minutes the moon has traveled 3° to the south and 2° up from the horizon where it had appeared at 137° southeast. Some cloud formation came handy to give an illusion here that it's a real moonrise. Full moon is 99,8% here today (on 14 June 2022), six days left to summer solstice. By the end of the night the illuminated part will wane down to 99,2%. Believe it or not, a difference of already 0,3% (when the moon reached the highest point on the sky due south in the middle of the night), can already be perceived by the naked eye.
To my disappointment I can't spot the moon at SE due to set there at 5:40, either the sky is too bright already (sun rises soon at 5:20) or the clouds or mist are blocking it low on the horizon.
Aperture priority, set fully open for the longest throw of this zoom lens. Handheld, supported by the balcony railing. For the full frame equivalent of 800mm not a bad result with the shutter speed of a 1/13 of a second. Soon after this I lowered the ISO from 3200 to 400 and obtained the same handheld result with 1/2.5 sec and much less noise. But the yellow moon had by then already emerged from the mystical clouds. And became the true moon - here it resembles the sun actually.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 1.10.5. Cropped at the top and bottom to fit the 16 by 9 format.
~SHORTCUTS~ Press [F11] and [L] key to engage Full Screen (Light box) mode with black background - press the same key or [Esc] to return. Press [F] to "Like" (Fave), press [C] to comment.