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Same 727 that's been making the rounds on the boards.

I know, I added that cheesy frame around these but I couldn't resist.

Damn, that's awesome, just picked up that download of those moons after seeing this, wicked mate, Thanks! Nice Shots!

woah! That moon and water effects are great!

Awsome edit!

That's a uh... Large moon...

Beautifuk pics, but that moon is the size of a beachball!

The moon is large but it's the result of using a common technique in photography. By using a long long lens with a far off subject you can bring in an object in the subjects background much closer as a result of optics.

In this example I suggest using the moon from hdmoon.zip since it provide a better quality image then the default version. The moon is not larger than the default version.

Example:

Airport: KCLM
Date: November 27, 2004
Time: 16:55
Weather: Clear



Climb straight out and as in this example climb to around 2300 feet. Here I went to 2327 feet. Now hit pause and go to view options and spot plane. You must be in "windows" mode.



I first set the distance to 2500 feet and then the alitutde to -90 feet. I then used the red toggle to roll the airplane into the view of the moon and gradually raised the zoom value to 25.00. You may have to play with each one until you have it into the view you want. The key however is a high distance and zoom value. Again, you have to be in windows mode for that red lined toggle to work in order to roll the airplane into the view.

Go back into full screen mode and there you have it.



Here are some "real world" examples:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?engine_version=5&nr_of_rows=411&sort_order=views&first_this_page=0&page_limit=15&&maxres=500&keywords=moon&keywrange=all

Later,

Gus

Wow they have to be some of the greatest shots ...

WOW  :o

Great Stuff

These pics are lovely - would like to get ahold of

Looking pretty good...

Brian,

For the moon go to:

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=Izuru+Yokomi+moon&CatID=root

It's under FS2004 but it works fine in FS2004.

The water set I am using can be found at:

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=Kevin+Rangel+water&CatID=root&Go=Search

Don't forget to back-up any files.

Enjoy,

Gus

Thanks a  bunch, both files work great, BTW that close-up of the moon is very impressive and thanks for sharing how to set up the picture as per your example here.

Brian

WOW! AMAZING shots!