SUPER BEAVER MOON
Taken by Todd Salat on November 15, 2024 @
Alaska Range
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D850
Exposure Time: 1/1250
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 160
Date Taken: 2024:11:16 04:29:57
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Here’s a close-up inspection of the SUPER BEAVER MOON, the 4th supermoon of the year photographed on the evening of November 15, 2024, Alaska Time. A couple hours of research as yielded this rounded off essay (disclaimer in case I’m off on something): WHAT’S A SUPERMOON? It’s a pop culture term for when the moon is in perigee…. whut? Peri means near (like in near perimeter) and Gee is from geo which means Earth (think geology). Perigee means Near Earth. On its elliptical orbit around Earth, the moon is now approximately 14,000 miles closer than average. Currently it’s 225,000 miles away from us, as opposed to the average 239,000 miles away. I love the moon, but I personally can hardly tell the difference between perigee (nearest) and apogee (furthest), much less keep the terms straight. It all makes my eyeballs go GEE whiz because every full moon looks amazingly big & bright to me! p.s. see that tiny ring near the bottom of the moon? That’s Tycho, an impact crater, and for scale it’s about 53 miles wide and the rim is almost 3 miles high. You could drive across it in an hour in a moon buggy at 60 mph. Since lunar gravity is approximately 1/6th of Earth's gravity, imagine the air you'd catch when you hit that rim!
Photographer's website:
https://www.aurorahunter.com
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