Blue Moon

[IPT]

So, have you guys taken advantage of this crazy full moon? The moonset here was timed nearly perfectly with sunrise so it made for some amazing moments! Lets see some shots of what you all had in your neck of the woods. I'll start by representing the far North!


http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8191.jpg

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8263.jpg

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8169.jpg

[IPT]

Some bonus shots from being out...

Denali and friends some several hundred miles away to the North...
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8161.jpg

Downtown emerging from the ice fog....
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8364.jpg

[Little Lucy 27]

Very beautiful!! Postcards, really!

[Misled]

This is all I got. Yesterday morning.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/jllndmb/DSC_0299.jpg

[Recty]

I took this right after midnight on New Years. There isnt any other cool subject around to give the photograph more appeal, but I just wanted to test out my lens on the moon :)

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/Recty/moon001.jpg

[NP_Reef]

great pictures, thanks for sharing.

[RoganTerrance]

nice pic

[Wolverine]

Mine would have been a picture of dark cloud cover.

[IPT]

yeah, we had two nice days then the clouds rolled in.

Grant, what focal length was that (is it cropped, w/ or w/o tele)? Oh, yeah your shooting with a cropped sensor too, right?

[IPT]

Wow, really? No-one else got shots of the Blue Moon on the long holiday weekend?

[Recty]

yeah, we had two nice days then the clouds rolled in.

Grant, what focal length was that (is it cropped, w/ or w/o tele)? Oh, yeah your shooting with a cropped sensor too, right?

That is weird, I was sure I replied to this yesterday.

Canon 50D, so 1.6 x focal length, so it was taken around 640mm. I cropped about 15% I'd say although it's hard to tell.

Here is the original image, no crop.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/Recty/moon002.jpg

[ahuxman58]

Once in a Blue Moon.....

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/ahuxman58/IMG_3804.jpg

[IPT]

Wow - I was so engrossed with how it was playing with the light in the landscape I didn't really even think to take any real close-ups (that one I posted was cropped from another image). Those craters are crazy! Seems like there was an eclipse too that night. Blue Moon on New Years eve, one ~ every 19 years. Eclipsed Blue Moon on New Years eve, once ~ every 91 years!! http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=12&year=2009

Playing in the trees...
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8223.jpg

[IPT]

one more...

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8128-1.jpg

Further into the hike that day...

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/IPTalaska/_L6A8373.jpg

[kevinbeth]

alaska seems like a much better place to live if you're a photographer.

[IPT]

Yeah, I guess so. If you like the outdoors, photog or not, it's great. Heck though, so is Utah, Montana, Cali, Washington, lots of other beautiful palces to be. What I really like about AK is the wildness of it, the extremes. It is still easy to "get away" from the masses. The weather can be extreme and I like that too. Nothing makes you feel more alive than a ferocious wind, bitter cold, a big Moose Staring you down, or having to wonder in there may be a Grizzly Bear around the corner as you're bombing downhill on your Mtn bike. It's not for everyone, but I love it. With this place either people love it or hate it.

[bsharding1982]

Whats this moon thing you guys are talking about? We just have Gray all winter.

[IPT]

Whats this moon thing you guys are talking about? We just have Gray all winter.


Sounds like you and Wolerine were out of luck!! Seems to me that whenever the Aurora activity picks up we go into grey mode. In NY my dad was talking to someone from SouthEast AK. It was on a beautiful sunny day. He said the other guy was telling him that back home (AK) they called beautiful day like that a "cloud failure day". Thought that was pretty funny. Hey, if FLorida can get a forcast for snow and have frost in the mornings maybe you can get some clear night!! This AM going to work a pretty nice slightly less than half moon hung just above the treeline most of my drive in. Prettty :).

[seadub1]

Wow!! LOVE the moon shots! Thanks for posting :)

[TitusvileSurfer]

Apparently there will be a full lunar eclipse New Year's Eve 2028.

[IPT]

Apparently there will be a full lunar eclipse New Year's Eve 2028.

Really? Hmm, according to that other link (http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=12&year=2009) I posted they will happen only 11 times in the next 1000 years. I guess since it was a partial eclipse this year, and next year will be a full eclipse, then what? The year after another partial and then no ecplise for a long time? Where did you get that info Titus?