eclipse!

[vharrison]

Georgia...socked in....

Doesn't that go without saying? Seems everytime I am in Georgia, it is raining.

 

[Fiddler]

It wasn't very impressive here...

 

[MasterBlaster]

It looks good tonight, but no red...

 

[FireFighterZero]

Nice pics Roger!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Pretty awesome for sure...

I wish I had camera skills!

 

[Al Smith]

Doesn't that go without saying? Seems everytime I am in Georgia, it is raining.

As a matter of fact last April on a trip to Tampa ,Georgia and myself in the state of Georgia were caught in a frog drowner .

 

[MasterBlaster]

Poor frogs!!!

 

[rbtree]

 

[Fiddler]

Nice shots!

Moon looks huge! it was nothing like that here...

 

[Cobleskill]

It always looks huge on the horizon. I figured it was magnified by the atmosphere. I read it is an optical illusion. If you gauge it they say it will measure the same overhead when it looks small.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

1/2 of a degree as an angular measurement. Same as the Sun, coincidentally, allowing the eclipses to work as they do. http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/angular.html

360 suns or moons would stack side to side, from horizon to horizon.

I believe its an annular eclipse when the moon is slightly farther from earth in its orbit, making it angularly smaller, resulting in a corona around the moon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

 

[rbtree]

It always looks huge on the horizon. I figured it was magnified by the atmosphere. I read it is an optical illusion. If you gauge it they say it will measure the same overhead when it looks small.

The two eclipse shots, and others were multiple exposures, and shot at 8x and 10x, whereas the main scene is more like 1-4x....

These images https://www.facebook.com/roger.barne...5832528&type=3 are from over a year ago, when we had three super moons in a row. Some of them were shot with my 500mm lens and a teleconverter, perhaps even with the crop sensor Canon 7D. With the most telescopic combination, I can get to 2200mm, which is 44 power. Not sure if everyone can view them...

 

[rbtree]

Here's a link to an image that is cropped, and was shot with my now stolen 300 and stacked teleconverters It's effectively 1350mm, or about 27 power

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/6135356644/in/album-72157625331221297/

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

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Beyond an explanation of it being an illusion, some interesting brain stuff is mentioned.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Science!!!