Rare Full Moon shooting opportunity 3-19-11

[Roberto Lequeux]

http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/Sky this Week/2011/03/STW MAR18to27.aspx

Today [Saturday, March 19] also marks the Moon’s closest approach to Earth this month, a position called perigee. At 3:09 p.m. EDT, our satellite comes within 221,565 miles of Earth’s center. This makes tonight’s Full Moon the largest of 2011.

That said, I should have shot this yesterday. It was low and bright, but there was a lot of sunlight still... didn't get to see, but there might have been some direct sunlight still if I checked earlier. That could have been cool.

 

[TimWitte]

Nice Tim looks awsome. Did you do any timelapse? Great pictures are rolling in here in The Netherlands. It was amazing weather today. Shame I found out too late about this spectacular moonrise. Like you I would defenitly taken a water scenery but would have taken at least two exposures at the time. One to smear ever bump in the water.

No I didn't do a timelapse, I did try to take a video with my GH1 but the lens I had wasn't long enough...

 

[Stephen Matthews]

I managed to get some video of it (non red), didn't seem that much more spectacular from my vantage, but figured I might as well try, enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/21318064