Moonlit La Palma Nightscape
Taken by project nightflight on March 7, 2014 @
La Palma, Spain
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The light of the Half Moon is bright enough to turn the night into day. It is easily possible to walk by moonlight even in very dark rural locations.
Timed exposures capture these magic scenes. On March 7, 2014, at 21:45 UT, a nearly half Moon (6.7 days old) located directly within the Hyades cluster shone on the scenic astronomy viewpoint "Mirador Llanos de Las Ventas" on La Palma island, 1320m above sea level. With a magnitude of -9.4 the Moon was bright enough to illuminate even the dark volcanic landscape.
Because moonlight is nothing else but reflected sunlight, the sky assumes the same bluish tint as during the day. The only difference to the daylight sky is that the evening sky sparkles with the splendor of the stars. At this time of the year, the winter Milky Way with bright stars in the constellations Puppis, Canis Major and Orion is still high up in the sky.
For this shot we used an EOS 350D body with an 8mm fisheye lens @f/4. The untracked exposure had a duration of 1min at an ISO setting of 1600. The landscape is only illuminated by moonlight, no artificial light sources were used.
Photographer's website:
http://www.project-nightflight.net
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