{"id":816,"date":"2020-04-26T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhilton.org.uk\/?p=816"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:49:18","slug":"new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhilton.org.uk\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s not long since I was photographing the full moon (see the last-but-one previous post) but now we have a new moon. Well almost; the newest of new moons coincided with a cloudy day, so this is the day old moon last night. It was a lovely red colour in contrast to the almost monochrome full moon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making the photograph showed how unreliable the histogram on the camera back is; this is about 3 stops less than when the full-image histogram showed nothing anywhere near being overexposed yet when I zoomed in to the edge of the moon suddenly highlights appeared. So I think you can only trust your own instinct when looking at high contrast subjects like the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And as with the full moon it looked nice with a tree in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally another picture of Venus. Very small but you can see it’s not a dot but a disc partly in shadow like the phases of the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As with most of my recent pictures all of the above were taken on an APS-C crops sensor camera with a lens-converter combination giving the 35mm equivalent of a 640mm lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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