The March Mini-Moon
Taken by Alan Dyer on March 5, 2015 @
Silver City, NM
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 60D
Exposure Time: 1/1
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2015:03:05 20:21:15
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Details:
I shot the March 5 apogee Moon rising over the Santa Rita Copper Mine, near Silver City, New Mexico, making for a coppery Moon rising over a copper mine. The main image is a composite stack of two exposure shot moments apart: a long 1-second exposure for the sky and ground and a short 1/13-second exposure for the lunar disk, to retain detail on the disk. The other image is a closeup through a telescope shot later in the evening when the Moon was high in the sky. In processing I enhanced the vibrance, saturation and contrast to exaggerate the subtle colour differences in the lunar mare, due to different mineral content of the lava flows that formed the mare more than 3.5 billion years ago. With luck, 7 lunations from now I will shoot the Sept 27 perigee "supermoon" with the same optical setup to create a big & little Moon comparison pair.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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