I was going to take a photograph of the #WaxingGibbous #Moon this afternoon and as I was going to the #east-facing side of the house, I noticed that an #aeroplane was on approach from the #west. When #winds have an #easterly component then the active #runway at the #airport is #08 and we're not far from the #GlidePath.

Of course, I didn't forget my original intention and so here is our nearest companion in the #Cosmos. I used a shutter speed of 1/5000 s and that's why the #sky looks much darker than it really appeared to the naked eye.

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I tried something a little different tonight which was #photograph the #Moon through a translucent layer of #cloud. The result is rather ghostly but not very sharp. This was a 2 s exposure.

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If you take an #overexposed #photograph of the #Moon, you may often notice a dark #halo around its #perimeter. This #evening's #Picture was taken at #dusk and the #sky was still quite light despite the deep blue it looks here with this exposure. It was taken almost exactly 36 hours before the next #FullMoon.

Here is a much faster #exposure where the sky appears black. This one is cropped.

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One #Moon, three #exposures. These #photographs were taken seconds apart this #afternoon, around #sunset, and yet look quite different simply because of shutter speed. The most striking difference to me is the #colour of the #sky.

The first one has an exposure time of 1/160 s.

The next one has an exposure time of 1/320 s.

And the last one has an exposure time of 1/640 s.

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