Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, Pollution and dust in the atmosphere causes it to look red/orange at times - just like sunsets! Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad On 25-Jun-2013, at 12:15 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > ==On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:00 AM, H&E Cummer <cummer at > netvigator.com>wrote: > >> Hi Luggers, >> Inspired by Bob Baron and others I got up at 2 am Saturday and managed to >> sneak this shot before the cloud cover obscured the lunar perigee moon. >> >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Full-MoonW.jpg.html >> >> http://tinyurl.com/oor3lch >> >> Taken with the Nikon 300 f4.0 plus 2X extender on the D800E tripod >> mounted. F11 @ 1/125 ISO 400. Cropped to about 1/3 in CS6. >> Please look large. C&C always welcome. >> Howard (on foggy Pender today) > Nice one, Howard, and I'm really impressed that an old guy like you could > get up that early. <g> > > However, I do have this question for you and the other mooners on the LUG: > Why are some of our shots of this event showing the moon in a yellowish > cast while others tend toward gray? Is it because of what's in the air at > any particular location? (I know we often get great sunsets here in > Oklahoma City because we are seeing the sun and clouds through dust that > has blown in from Texas.) > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/W_3003188Moon.jpg.html > > --Bob (2 days younger than Howard) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information