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Crazy moon over NYC last night
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salbano
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Don't know what this view of the moon is called, but I like it!
Bobo Hodls
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That cool.
Which bridge was that?
Which bridge was that?
jhorse
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A projected image from Australia!
MDaveM
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Also (somewhat counter-intuitively) known as a first quarter moon or last quarter moon depending on where we are in the lunar month. If it was taken yesterday it would be first quarter because new moon was about a week earlier.
Very nice picture no matter what you call the type of moon.
Very nice picture no matter what you call the type of moon.
rovingtim
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That is not how the moon looks in the northern hemisphere.
SammyToronto
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That's more like a photoshopped moon, unless the distance between the Earth and the moon shrank by half, that is.
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I would call it ...............What kind of moon is this? Wax, blood, super?
A very interesting compression with a focal length of 125mm
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Brian D. Schneider
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But that 125mm is equivalent to 250mm in 35mm terms so the compression seems about right.I would call it ...............What kind of moon is this? Wax, blood, super?
A very interesting compression with a focal length of 125mm
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The size seems wrong unless this is cropped quite a lot.But that 125mm is equivalent to 250mm in 35mm terms so the compression seems about right.I would call it ...............What kind of moon is this? Wax, blood, super?
A very interesting compression with a focal length of 125mm
Full frame? No. But the picis square so obviously it has been cropped.
Here is the moon at 92mm in the full m43 frame:
And here is the moon at 280mm in the full m43 frame:
Admittedly the OP's moon purports to be much closer to the horizon where the moon would appear to be bigger. But is it close enough to the horizon for that to be a significant factor?
Also the moon seems to be too sharp compared with the bridge and the details you can see in the windows of the building to the right and a little above the moon. At that distance, with the lens at infinity, the bridge and the building should be sharp. They do not appear to be.
How can the moon be so clearly defined over NY city? What about the city haze (putting it politely)?
What time was it taken at? Midnight GMT which is what -- 8pm NYC? Does the city haze clear by then?
I am not familiar with NYC but the bridge and buldings suggest there is haze about.
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jeffharris
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The so-called "moon illusion", i.. the moon appearing bigger when it is closer to the horizon, is actually produced by the human brain. I knew this from coursework years ago (and at that time there was no explanation for it--not sure how much vision neuroscience has advanced since then on this question), but I only had a chance to confirm it a few months ago. There was a phenomenal moon over San Francisco and my wife decided to take a picture of it. In the photo the size appeared entirely ordinary.
With regards to the OP's photo, it does not look plausible. As others have said, the size of the moon (with visible craters) is too big to ever obtain it in the same frame as a piece of bridge. And the exposure is inconsistent the moon is properly exposed, and that requires daylight setting (or at best sunset settings), whereas the night-time bridge is also properly exposed. The dynamic range of the photo seems far beyond what any camera can accomplish. Instead, this photo looks like to separate photos, taken with lenses of different focal length, that have been superimposed.
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Bobo Hodls
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When setting, I believe that's rather accurate (from what I see of it at this moment, it'll follow through just like that).
Martin.au
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I just figured it was a composite, because at 1/3 shutter speed, the moon would be blown out, iirc.
Savas Kyprianides
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Crazy Moon sounds like an Injun name. Or a relation to a British rock drummer.What kind of moon is this? Wax, blood, super?
Gawd -- the neuroscience they poured into me in the late 1970s didn't mention that. I understood it was caused by the light passing at a very acute angle through the atmosphere which s acting as a lens. In fact, as the moon (or sun) rises or sets, you can actually defy the curvature of the earth and see it before it has truly appeared and after it has disappeared because the atmosphere bends the light.
+1.
Cheers, geoff
rovingtim
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good point.
Martin.au
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