Full moon on the rise

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This was shortly after tonight's moonrise, just two hours ago. I was really happy to see it, and have my camera with me, too.

At about 4:20 tonight, @moryan Tweeted (on Twitter) that the full moon was going to be one of the biggest in the past several years, so right away I Googled the moonrise time and found that in Chicago, it had started just 10 minutes prior.

So I grabbed my camera and dashed around the office trying to find a view. I was able to turn out the lights in one of the conference rooms and start taking photos. Lots of them. It was a real learning experience. Some were blurry, some were boring, but I kept clicking. Unfortunately, there wasn't a really pretty backdrop for the moon. I kept the traffic in the photo to help give some scale. It's Interstate 294, in case anyone is wondering.

I think this is the most interesting of all the photos I took. Mostly because I like the color. Click here if you want to see the rest of the set. It's small. Only five photos.

I'm participating in Skywatch Friday today.
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M is for Moon

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Where has the week gone? Wow. With the really cool Hunter's Moon we've been having this week, I'd hoped to get a new photo. That hasn't happened yet. Instead, I'm pulling out this older photo of the moon that I took back in July. I took this at twilight while we were at an outdoor concert. I think this is the first photo of the moon I've ever taken where you can actually see some surface detail (if you look at the original size). The detail is ever so slight, but it's there. :)

I'm participating in ABC Wednesday today with the letter M.
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Eclipsing moon

This is my best shot of the moon at some point during the lunar eclipse last night. Not wonderful, but better than I expected considering I wasn't prepared and didn't even know how the particular tripod I was using worked. Some lessons on how to use the camera might help also. :)

This was looking up through some tree branches.