Full Moon

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose the are going to make a big deal of all this.
– Neil Armstrong (speaking from the moon)

YES WE ARE!

With the trusty camera, I took some photos of the full moon at around 9:30pm this evening in our back garden, which faces south and therefore an ideal place to view the moon and the planets traversing the night sky.

It was a bit difficult to photograph the moon without a tripod and using the maximum 21x zoom. The tricky part is keeping the moon in view, tracking as when you use high magnification, the earth’s rotation also magnifies the movement of the moon and other celestial bodies and therefore they move out of frame quite quickly.

Full Moon

Be that as it may, below are some of the photos taken trying various exposures.

Along the path, the gaze of the moon follows you.
The tangled branches
There on the snow
Mark out the signs
Of your thoughts.
– Francois Cheng

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
– Oscar Wilde

Did you know?

The moon is 384,400 kilometres (238 855.086 miles) away from the Earth.

The moon is quarter the Earth’s size.

The moon is the brightest object in the night sky.  This is incredible as the moon does not give out light but rather reflect light coming from the sun.

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Have you heard?

You weigh slightly less when you are directly under a full moon.