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Blood Red Blue Supermoon!

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So, today is a Blue Moon, a Supermoon AND a total lunar eclipse! Won't happen again for another 20 years or so.

We had pretty clear skies and I was able to get a reasonable shot of it:


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For the best shots, one needs one of those stabilizing, tracking tripods that follow the movement of the Moon - my standard tripod and my zoom lens leads to a 1/2 to 1/3 second exposure at ISO6400 - leading to some blurriness and quite a bit of noise. But not too bad considering! And a pretty amazing sight to behold!
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That looks a great shot Paul!

I'm hoping to get some later from here in Blighty, albeit without the blood red and eclipse bits :grin:
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Great pic, Paul.

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Nice one
10/10 clouds here so saw nowt last night and probably nowt tonite
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Clear as crystal here in MK, this was taken about an hour ago on my 'middle' camera, a Canon Powershot SX 540 HS. It has a 50x optical zoom, and pretty good stabilisation

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That's from your 'middle' camera? Very impressive. I can't imagine what your 'highend' camera would do.

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great shot Paul. We had our usual overcast with 2-3 inches Lake Effect Snowfall.
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Cloudy in Telford.
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Just looked normal here :sad:
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I thought it looked slightly bigger and very bright here but it didn't make me go all furry and start howling though - most disappointing :ha:
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Awesome pics guys. From my house I get a great view......of clouds :sad:

All the best.

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Gregers wrote:Awesome pics guys. From my house I get a great view......of clouds :sad:

All the best.

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