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More moon shots

PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:27 pm
by specter177
Full moon tonight, and I wanted to practice for the shuttle launch tomorrow night.

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Had to play with the camera color settings a bit to get this one.

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This is what it looked like with no color change.

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The midnight sun.

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:01 am
by BAW0343
Can I ask how taking photos of the moon offers practice for a shuttle launch?

Hardly seems comparable

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:53 am
by tcco94
The moon was really bright last night.
Nice shots and post your shuttle shots here to i'd love to look at those  8-)

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:15 am
by specter177
[quote]Can I ask how taking photos of the moon offers practice for a shuttle launch?

Hardly seems comparable

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:54 am
by Roughrider
How well can you see it from Ocala? I hope you get some pictures, I'll be sitting here waiting. Mark

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:57 pm
by specter177
How well can you see it from Ocala? I hope you get some pictures, I'll be sitting here waiting. Mark


Very well, especially a night launch.

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:30 pm
by BigTruck
[quote][quote]Can I ask how taking photos of the moon offers practice for a shuttle launch?

Hardly seems comparable

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:20 pm
by specter177
Yep! T -3 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes.

Re: More moon shots

PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:49 pm
by Ravang
Nice shots, and good luck with the launch pictures. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]