Swift Moon
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on November 27, 2015 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Exposure Time: 10/1600
Aperture: f/6.4
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2015:11:27 11:33:43
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This morning, I was out before sunrise taking pictures of the waning gibbous (now 97% of full) November Moon, when a Swift out foraging for insects briefly transited the lunar disk and was captured in this lucky shot. It was taken at 05.14 LT using a hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 compact camera in intelligent auto mode and x60 zoom magnification. Every year enormous numbers of common Swifts make the amazingly long migratory flight from Europe to winter in Southern Africa and we have plenty of them in Mutare. The recent brief rainy spell has resulted in a proliferation of insects including large clouds of flying ants which rise from the ground at dusk and dawn. These provide welcome nourishment for the Swifts which circle tirelessly for hours on end to catch and eat them while on the wing. So for us here, the November Frosty Moon could more appropriately be called the Swift Moon.
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