Rising Easter Full Moon
Taken by Alan Dyer on March 31, 2018 @
near Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposure Time: 1/15
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2018:04:01 15:25:04
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A very pink "blue Moon!"
This is the rising of the Full Moon on Easter eve, Saturday, March 31, 2018, on a very cold night with lots of snow still on the ground in Alberta. So this is more a winter Moon than a spring one. This is the “paschal” Moon – the one that defines the date of Easter, being the first Full Moon after the vernal equinox. The first Sunday after that Full Moon, in this case the next day, is Easter Sunday.
This was also a “blue Moon” as this was the second Full Moon of March, and it was the second blue Moon of 2018.
These are composites of exposures taken for a time-lapse movie: one with 9 images at roughly 3-minute intervals, and one with 420 frames stacked for a "moon trail," with single images supplying the ground and final lunar disk.
Through the shoot I used exposures to keep the Moon’s disk well-exposed as it rose. To do this I manually shortened the shutter speed by a third of a stop every couple of minutes once the Moon got high enough that its disk began to brighen relative to the sky.
However, this night the sky was hazy enough that the Moon’s disk always looked yellow, if not red, as it rose. It didn’t get bright white until much later. Nevertheless, the change in colour as the Moon rises demonstrated the atmospheric extinction from horizon haze.
I shot this sequence from home in southern Alberta, using a 200mm Canon lens and 1.4x convertor, on the Canon 6D MkII. Exposures ranged from 0.8 second to 1/15 second, all at ISO 100 and f/4.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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