Tasks:Moon art and photography
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2009 11 5 |
| Task title: | Tasks:Moon art and photography |
| Contact person: | Anders Feder |
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Description:
Inspiring photographs and artistic renderings of the Moon for various uses are requested.
Nice photographs can be taken by most everyone with a good camera. Ideas for set-ups include, Moonrise over a skyline or over the sea, Full Moon in the background of various sceneries, crescent Moon against the starry sky, and so on - be creative! With a good almanac you can even plan your photo-op by looking up Moon rise and set times during its various phases at your location.
For additional inspiration, see this article.
Note that it may not be trivial to take a good picture of the Moon with a digital camera. The best chance of success probably is to turn all auto-this-and-that OFF, and adjust all variable parameters manually until you get the picture right. Digital cameras are not designed to take sharp pictures of a "bright spot on a dark background". The Full Moon in particular is very difficult because there aren't any features except a few dark spots. If you want to see features (e.g. craters) you have to take the picture along the terminator (which you don't have on a Full Moon) where the shadows are "long".
Finally, keep in mind that the human eye and mind perceives the Moon as having a larger angular size than it actually does when it is near the horizon. You will need to zoom in (~ 4x) before the Moon will have the same size on the picture as it appears for the naked eye.
As an alternative to cameras and amateur telescopes, a publicly accessible robotic telescope such as the Bradford Robotic Telescope described here may be used to obtain high-quality shots of the Moon from your desktop.
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--Anders Feder 04:20, 2 December 2008 (EST)
