La salita della Luna Piena alla vigilia di Pasqua, sabato, 31 marzo 2018, su un molto fredda notte con un sacco di neve ancora sul terreno in Alberta. Così questo è
5400 x 3679 px | 45,7 x 31,1 cm | 18 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
31 marzo 2018
Altre informazioni:
The rising of the Full Moon on Easter eve, Saturday, March 31, 2018, on a very cold night with lots of snow still on the ground in Alberta. So this is more a winter Moon than a spring one. This is the “paschal” Moon – the one that defines the date of Easter, being the first Full Moon after the vernal equinox. The first Sunday after that Full Moon, in this case the next day, is Easter Sunday. This was also a “blue Moon” as this was the second Full Moon of March, and it was the second blue Moon of 2018, as there was one in January as well, with Full Moons on Jan 1 and Jan 31. Ditto with March. This is a stack of 424 exposueres, taken at 3-second intervals for a time-lapse, but here stacked with Lighten blend mode to create a moon trail streak. I used the Advanced Stacker Plus actions in Photoshop. The final Moon disk comes from the last image in the sequence, while the ground comes from the first image in the sequence. Note how the Moon changes colour as it rises and climbs above the absorption from the atmosphere that tints the Moon red on the horizon. But this night, the Moon was still quite yellow even half an hour after it rose. I shot this sequence from home, using a 200mm Canon lens and 1.4x convertor, on the Canon 6D MkII. Exposures ranged from 0.8 second to 1/15 second, all at ISO 100 and f/4.
