[Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images

[Øivind Tøien]

Personality of the moon watching over land and people

[Øivind Tøien]

Moon-Mars conjunction in early September.

[Akira]

Personality of the moon watching over land and people

I wonder what I'm seeing?  It looks rather like Phobos...

[Øivind Tøien]

I wonder what I'm seeing?  It looks rather like Phobos...

Thanks for commenting Akira. Yes, it is just the atmospheric distortion of the (less than quarter) moon near the horizon, causing this somewhat scary face and irregular shape to appear.

[Akira]

Thanks for commenting Akira. Yes, it is just the atmospheric distortion of the (less than quarter) moon near the horizon, causing this somewhat scary face and irregular shape to appear.

Wow, your explanation made the image look even more phenomena!  Great capture.  Thank you for the details.

[Erik Lund]

Very nice moon city scape!

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks for the kind words, Erik.

Here is a less urban faceless version, while the moon is disappearing behind Alaska range somewhat later. A bit blurry, but not too bad considering the 600mm focal length (300PF+TC-20E III) handheld at 1/13 sec! There is a touch of the "green flash" at the top of the moon more typically seen with the sun setting in the oceans.

[Jakov Minić]

Øivind, Øivind, Øivind, the more distorted the better 

[Erik Lund]

Keeps getting better! Wow - and yes I agree, the disturbance just adds to the image

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks Jacov and Erik. There should be more chances for distortions when the inversion layers hit further into winter here. 

[golunvolo]

Yes! first one a like, last one I love!

[ColinM]

I really like the grizzled moon pictures Ovind (like some sort of crazy doppelganger, sneaking along before the real moon has started that nights shift)
But I also wanted to mention the photo from a few days earlier

Moon-Mars conjunction in early September.

I'd like to show my appreciation for you being able to capture this, and then deliver the PP and presentation such that even on my very Lo-Fi tablet I see Mars in the far depths beyond the moon.

[Øivind Tøien]

Thank Paco and Colin for the comments, I really like your desription of the urban dobbelganger, Colin.   The conjunction image was easier than one would think as with Mars being so close now, exposure of Mars and the Moon was matched perfectly (I used 1/60 sec at f/10 and ISO 160 for both the stacked Mars and stacked Moon takes - intensity at conjunction one month before closest approach was not much different.)

BTW I initially aimed for higher magnification for that take, using the AW1, but after a number of captures I discovered that the Bahtinov mask had been forgotten on the lens! Then the distance between them had increased enough to not fit diagonally within the frame any more, so I reverted to D500.

[Akira]

I may not have the chance to shoot the blue moon tomorrow.  So, I tried tonight.

[Øivind Tøien]

Nice with the clouds providing a background without blowing out the moon too much, Akira!

In the capture below on Oct 6 clouds were taking over after my Mars imaging. I exposed for the clouds, and could not retain details on the moon. I also had to "cheat" a little getting the color back into Mars, which was also blown out.