Perigee Full Moon rising behind Temple

[StephenM]

Hi all,

Here's the "Supermoon" rising this evening, as viewed from Southbank in Brisbane. After a bit of planning, I successfully positioned myself so that the Moon rose behind the statue on the Mormon temple in Kangaroo Point :)

There's also a 1.8 mb animation here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenmudge/14688834848/sizes/o/


This is also first light for my new Canon 6D :D

Cheers,
Stephen

[PeterEde]

Cool shot

[Occulta]

Nice shot Stephen :thumbsup:

It looks better IMHO without the light pole!

Chris

[StephenM]

Thanks Peter and Chris!

This image is being featured on the front page of Spaceweather (http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=08&year=2014) today!

Here's another version, where I have cloned out the light pole.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Stephen.

Congrats on the publication!

Ross.

[Retrograde]

Congratulations on the Spaceweather front page - again!

On balance I think I prefer the one without the light pole.

[multiweb]

Spot on. Even the street lamp is aligned with the center of the moon. :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Ross, Pete and Marc! It was nice to have the first astronomy-related image from my new 6D published in Spaceweather. Hopefully there will be a few more with this camera.

Here's one final version, in which I've cloned out lightposts.

Cheers,
Stephen

[batema]

Beautiful.

[Derek Klepp]

Well framed Stephen I actually like the original.Great to here you have the 6D you will be impressed with its low light ability look foward to your pics with it.

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Mark!



Thanks Derek! Yes, I'm looking forward to testing the 6D in dark skies once this rain clears up! I have a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 on the way as well :)

Cheers,
Stephen