Full Moon
Two weeks ago, on the night before the semester started and my reading list grew so dramatically, the moon was full and the sky was clear. I’ve been waiting months from the conditions of a clear sky, an uncommitted evening, and a non-tired Tim all to converge, and it’s my pleasure to inform you that this was it.
I used the same old process to make the picture. I took 49 individual videos of about 100 frames each, for a total of 4.19GB of uncompressed data. The final composite is about 3100 pixels wide, which should make a decent 11×17 print at nearly 300dpi. I’m going to try to finish it tomorrow night, but as usual, no promises.
NOTE (updated 12/17/06): The final images are copyrighted and are made available at present for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment. Please do not use them in any commercial work without obtaining my prior permission. Also, please do not link directly to any of them for use on your own web site. There are several MySpace pages doing this right now, and at some point soon I will be instituting measure to make this stop.
If you do download a copy and use it on your site, please leave a comment on this post including your URL, and make sure to link back to this post from your site. Thanks!
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- Posted by Tim on Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 12:49:07 am PST
- Category: Astronomy
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8 Responses to “Full Moon”
Sweet!
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 9th, 2005 at 12:24 pm |Not all moons are created equal. Your moon is very impressive. Question-was this a denver thing or a mountain thing? Love Jim
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 15th, 2005 at 8:39 am |Jim-Bob:
It was a Denver thing. Dark skies hold no benefit when imaging the moon and planets, since they’re so bright themselves. However, when I obtain this latest object of my decadent, compromised desire, darkness will count for something. Whaley will be putting me up for the evening more often.
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 15th, 2005 at 9:14 am |Okay, I’m impressed. Very. Wildly.
Who da Moon Man?
You da Moon Man! :^>
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 16th, 2005 at 5:18 pm |Time for everybody to join in a rousing chorus of “We Like The Moon!”
The larger version is now my backdrop. Very nice indeed.
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 18th, 2005 at 11:39 am |Excellent work!
Comment Permalink | Posted on March 1st, 2005 at 9:22 pm |I love Tycho (the large crater with long rays)!
Tycho and Copernicus (the slightly bigger crater at center-left with smaller rays) are the only two I know by sight. They come out nicely in this pic.
Now I need to get serious about Jupiter and Saturn this month!
Comment Permalink | Posted on March 5th, 2005 at 4:16 pm |Your photography is beautiful.
Comment Permalink | Posted on September 10th, 2006 at 12:59 pm |Such a weird full moon and here in england, the highest tide in 30 years.
Everyone went a bit loopy.