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Meiying Lee
Taipei, Taiwan
01/06/2023
09:59 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon EOS 600D + SIGMA 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 S DG OS HSM Sports
Canon R7 + SIGMA 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 S DG OS HSM Sports

Post-processing Details:

37 Full moon photos put together using Powerpoint

Image Details:

The stories the colors and surface of the full moon tell us
This composite photo is of the full moons I have captured in nearly 7 years. Because Mare Crisium is located on the east side of the moon, its position can tell the position of the moon in the sky. Therefore, the moon in the picture is arranged according to the position of Mare Crisium (or the position of the moon in the sky). Mare Crisium above the lunar surface indicates when the full moon rises in the east. As the moon rises, the position of Mare Crisium shifts to the right. When Mare Crisium is on the right side of the lunar surface, that is, when the full moon is near the zenith, it is also around midnight. At this time the sky is the darkest, and if the weather is clear, you can see the clearest iron-gray lunar surface. Then the moon slowly set, and Mare Crisium turned to the lower right. A full moon usually sets around sunrise. The color of the dawn is usually gray-blue or pink-gray, and the color of the full moon will also be close to the color of the sky, and the surface of the moon is relatively unclear.
The various colors of the lunar surface in the picture can tell us about the relationship between the color of the moon and the atmosphere. During moonrise and moonset, the low-altitude moon will appear yellow or red due to atmospheric scattering. A contrasting iron-gray Moon indicates clear skies, and the Moon is usually near the zenith at this time. When the full moon sinks around sunrise, it will appear a gray-blue or pink-gray color close to the dawn sky.
In addition to the position of the Mare Crisium and the color of the moon, because the photos are all taken at the same focal length, it can be seen that the size of the moon also changes significantly, which is related to the distance between the moon and the earth.
In addition, in the nearly 7 years of shooting the moon, in 2022, I encountered a bronze-colored super-beautiful total lunar eclipse, and it is even rarer to capture the once-in-a-thousand-year total lunar eclipse occulting Uranus. Of course there have also been total lunar eclipses about to set that are barely discernible to the naked eye. Fortunately, I also encountered a plane that happened to fly by. In fact, the shooting is more about the moon in the cloud. All the fun goes without saying.

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