For Moon Lovers - get your teles ready

<p>I intend to, it is supposed to be a clear night, will be using a Minolta SR-7 with 200mm rokkor, 1/500s at f/16 or f/11 on superia 400 speed film.:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/extreme-supermoon-full-moon_2011-03-10">http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/extreme-supermoon-full-moon_2011-03-10</a></p>

<p>It's completely overcast and raining here in the San Francisco Bay area, and predicted to remain so through the weekend, so I'll be surprised if the moon is visible tonight here. If I am surprised, I'll reach for a Nikon (I think the F with plain prism is next in line for exercise) and put a 300mm f/4.5 Nikkor-H on it, with and without a 2x teleconverter (maybe even more than one, just for the experience).</p>

<p>Forecast for here is also cloudy, chance of rain, maybe the moon will not change so much for Sunday evening?</p>

 

<p>Well its a beautifully sunny day here in NYC. Unfortunately have plans tonight so won't be out shooting but have fun with the SR7 Ralf.</p>

<p>Canon A1 with a 500mm Quantaray Tele (not the mirror type). First time for the tele-</p>

<p>Ralf, a 200mm will render a 1.8mm dia moon on the film, a bit small. You might want to look at a 400~500mm if you have one or the 200 with a 2X stopped down won't be too bad.</p>

<p>Clouds here. Rain</p>

<p>Time to dust off the Telemegor 300/4.5, and grab a 3x for fun, too. <br>

Hope I don't pass out by 7pm, I'm beat !</p>

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<p>I hate to be a downer, but the moon isn't going to be all that much bigger. The difference between the perigee full moon and the apogee full moon is only about 10%. The full moon is always worthy of a picture, though.</p>

<p>http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071025.html</p>

Absolutey clear skies here, and what can i say... the moon just looks like the moon.

<p>Moon is huge and bloody-colored this evening in MD. Have not seen it like this for ages.</p>

<p>I headed outdoors a tad late and got stuck in traffic on 495 going into Weehawken. The emerging moon was indeed huge and red as i listened to Russian love songs and ballads on WFMU, 91.1 . <br>

By the time I got set up on the pier by the Charthouse Restaurant on the Hudson, the moon crept above the skyscrapers.<br>

It looked good through the Meyer Telemegor 300/4.5 and a trusty old Soligor 200/3.5 mounted to the D200.<br>

Cheers from the New Jersey waterfront !</p><div></div>

<p>Good advice, John, time dig out my 2x vivitar somewhere.</p>

<p>Got a few digital pictures, but most importantly, a few frames of Tri-X in my OM-1 which was attached to my Orion Starmax 90 (1250mm f13 telephoto).<br>

My iPod ap had the wrong data so my wife, oldest son, and I waited for a while for the moon to rise. My wife didn't think it was going to rise. Now I know how Linus felt when he was waiting on the Great Pumpkin.</p>

<p>Gorgeous picture Gabor, well worth the drive. My vantage point wasn't as glamorous as yours, but it had to do. I was freezing my a$$ off on the roof of the Stop 'n Shop parking lot. I brought my SR-7 and a new old stock (never used) Mamiya Sekor 300mm f5.6 bazooka. Used a doubler and shot 400 speed film, with a MD to M42 adapter of course. Tried foolishly to hand-hold, boy there was so much dancing on the focusing screen, so it was impossible. Then I leaned the lens barrel on the handle of a shopping cart and squeezed a few. Then yanked out a light duty tripod and locked the mirror up after I composed. The only downer that I realized, too late, was that the Mamiya lens had no auto-manual switch on the lens, so I had to shoot at its max aperture 1/500-1/1000 speeds.</p>

<p>No kidding, Ralf... it was mighty cold ! Quite a change from yesterday. <br>

I had a magled plain-prism F with me, too, but i realized the only roll of film i had in the bag was actually already loaded into my new Zeiss Contessa folder. I fired off a few 1-second exposures of the pier and skyline with the Contessa, then packed everything up. <br>

Those M42 adapters are great on Minoltas, Ralf. I haven't realized until a short time ago that they maintain infinty focus. I snagged a few cheap ones for my SRTs. </p>

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<p>I learned, quite by accident, from the local conspiracy theorist on our AM radio station (he came on after the hockey game was over) that apparently a full moon on the spring equinox is called a worm moon, or death moon (apparently, don't tell anyone.... by THE DRUIDS!). This all has something to do with why the strikes on Libya were launched tonight, some big Illuminati thing :D Clear cloudless sky here... but life had other plans. I blame the Free Masons ;)</p>

Very Cool Photos .. really loved the vantage point Gabor had and the ensuing exposure! I knew were all a bunch of Lunatics!!

While I had the OM-1 out I also took a few shots through my Orion Starmax 127 (a 1540mm f12.1 tele). I will process this

film later today and hopefully scan and post tonight. I posted a digital pic on No Wordss using the Starmax 90.

<p>Unfortunately, it was sort of anticlimatic here in NJ. I found a really great spot over looking a valley facing due east. It turned out I wasn't the only one with the same idea, but I was the first to show up. I waited about half an hour till moon rise, and while it was quite pretty, it wasn't all that much bigger to the eye than normal. Shot about 4, or 5 photos with my RB, and had a silent little chuckle as I started seeing "digi cam" flashes firing behind me. The plus side is that the cemetary I was shooting from is one I haven't explored before, so I will be going back there soon. </p>

<p>Ed, that's hilarious; there was a lady firing her dslr right behind me with her in camera flash set for red eye. She had a built in flash with a "special" guide number, so I am sure it was very useful, LOL. I tried to give her advice, but she looked at me like I had just arrived from that big moon. Oh well, can't say I didn't try.</p>

<p>Who knows... maybe the moon had been drinking?</p>

<p>Bill, the PIANO has been drinking ;)</p>

<p>Darn i been pretty sick in bed with the flu and only started to feel better today , and now its overcast and expected to rain until Wednesday dammit . And I would love trying to photograph the moon again. I tried many times before but I never get a nice clear shot my mirror lens or using a multiplier, and the longest lenses i have are a 200mm and a 500mm telephoto. Past shots of the moon with just the 500mm were never large enough to show any detail, so I shoot it as a double exposure with something interesting at dusk .. Oh well i guess ill have to wait another 20 years</p>