Sunset moon rise alignment anticipated in January, 2009
I’ve been enthralled with the moon since growing up watching the Apollo missions on TV, the original Cosmos TV series starring Carl Sagan, and getting a 60mm telescope. My digital photography of the moon was underway by 2004, and digital cameras improved significantly over the following years, particularly with the release of the relatively affordable Canon 5D Mark II, with its large 35mm “full frame” sensor for excellent dynamic range and low light performance. I went to watch the first space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base, and I had a press pass for the fourth landing there.
With my passion for space and astrophotography, it was fun discussing one of my favorite subjects, moon photography, with PhotoPills app developers Rafael Pons and Germán Marquès, who joined me on the Landscape Photography Show.
Here’s the video on YouTube:
Landscape Photography Show Episode #20 Jeff Sullivan and Rafael Pons “Shooting The Moon”
Also featured on the show was photography from Chris Whiting, Alan Majchrowicz, Dag Ole Nordhaug, Franka M. Gabler and David Tomek. Take a look at their work, and follow them on G+ to see more. Many thanks to Jim Warthman, Carra Riley, Kevin Rowe, Tom Hierl, Sheila B. DuBois for hosting the Landscape Photography Show !
December 2015 update: I’ve created a new @DSLRastronomy Twitter account to focus more on astrophotography than my regular @JeffSullPhoto Twitter account, which also covers travel and landscape photography. I started planning moon shots with Naval Observatory tables, as I explained in a blog post back in 2006. Later I was thrilled to use a free app on a Windows PC: Anticipating Sun and Moon Alignments. Today I’m glad that we can carry our apps on a smartphone in our pocket. I like having multiple apps, since they’re relatively low in cost, and you never know which one will introduce the next cool feature first. Rather than have to reevaluate them every year, I’d rather have multiple installed, and let the new features come to me in updates.
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I started watching this last night but had to leave for a business engagement. Thanks for posting the link. Looking forward to watching the rest of it.
Thanks for a great show +Jeff Sullivan (and the organizers +Carra Riley +Kevin Rowe +Jim Warthman +Sheila B. DuBois!) and thanks for featuring me +Kevin Rowe. Very much appreciated and surprising, considering the high level on the show. Sorry for having a though name to pronounce 🙂 but you can pretty much say it straight forward, also in english 🙂 Have a nice day!
+Jeff Sullivan it was a fun show regardless of the gremlins Carra had to start it 🙂 and your welcome +Dag Ole Nordhaug 🙂
I think you forgot a photographer that I had picked +Jeff Sullivan His name is +Dave Tomek
Hola jeff todo bien pues me alegro mucho saludos.
I missed the show due to work commitments. Will watch it this weekend 🙂
nice job….
Very nice, I like
Thanks everyone! There will be a great moon event to photograph on Juary 31, 2018 as the “super blue blood” moon sets at sunrise. In the United States there will also be a lunar eclipse in the hours leading up to that sunrise moon set. Check the PhotoPills app for details on timing in your area!