We saw the whole of the moon (From The Argus)
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We saw the whole of the moon
11:00am Sunday 20th March 2011 in News
Eddie Mitchell's shot of the supermoon taken from Worthing Pier Buy this photo »
It happens once in a blue moon and has left people waxing lyrical.
And luckily Argus photographer Eddie Mitchell was on hand to snap the whole of the supermoon.
This stunning picture was taken from the end of Worthing Pier looking out towards Beachy Head.
He said: “It was a really amazing sight. There was a group of us huddled together at the end of the pier all snapping away. I’ve never seen the moon looking that spectacular in my life.”
Eddie took the picture using a 600mm lenses with a 1.4 extender using an iso speed of 1250 and a shutter speed of an 80th of a second with an F8 aperture.
Comments(21)
Granny
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2:38pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Morpheus
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2:55pm Sun 20 Mar 11
j.solntseff@cogeco.ca
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3:05pm Sun 20 Mar 11
AJinCanada
jayp
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3:35pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Ivan R Sake
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3:48pm Sun 20 Mar 11
chipmunk77
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4:57pm Sun 20 Mar 11
j.solntseff@cogeco.cIt's a VERY VERY VERY predictable picture, there really isn't much more to say about it, seen ones like it a 1000 times in every poster shop, perhaps that's why we aren't impressed by it!
a wrote:
What a miserable lot you are! How about a positive comment such as, "great picture!". These people took the trouble to show us their art-work and all you can do is boast about your own cameras! AJinCanada
It's also looks like it's had a trip thru photoshop as it certainly wasn't that colour!
Valerie Paynter
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5:34pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Andy R
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6:36pm Sun 20 Mar 11
chipmunk77 wrote:Er....yes it was. I saw it at about 6.30 last night in Clayton (before it had got properly dark) and was that colour, and it then went even redder hue than that. No photoshop - just my two eyes.
j.solntseff@cogeco.c a wrote: What a miserable lot you are! How about a positive comment such as, "great picture!". These people took the trouble to show us their art-work and all you can do is boast about your own cameras! AJinCanadaIt's a VERY VERY VERY predictable picture, there really isn't much more to say about it, seen ones like it a 1000 times in every poster shop, perhaps that's why we aren't impressed by it! It's also looks like it's had a trip thru photoshop as it certainly wasn't that colour!
Yes it is a good picture - hopefully the photographer will ignore some the self-satisfied bores on here.....
taxidiy
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6:54pm Sun 20 Mar 11
TrollOP
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7:55pm Sun 20 Mar 11
magicmenagerie
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8:29pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Thanks.
kipperklock
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9:34pm Sun 20 Mar 11
And its a shame that any article or nice you tube video has to attract poisonous little dwarves with nothing better to do than make snide mean little comments. get a life !
John Steed
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10:30pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Baron of Sussex
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10:58pm Sun 20 Mar 11
jayp
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11:29pm Sun 20 Mar 11
and the moon is made of the cheese
and the things that I don't know
are eating up all of the bees.
Bees are yellow and so is cheese
Cheese is yellow and so is the moon
and the big beanie baby of blood says
Boo hoo because he's a very big drip
jayp
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11:33pm Sun 20 Mar 11
jayp wrote:I see the moon,
The cheese is made of the moon
and the moon is made of the cheese
and the things that I don't know
are eating up all of the bees.
Bees are yellow and so is cheese
Cheese is yellow and so is the moon
and the big beanie baby of blood says
Boo hoo because he's a very big drip
The moon sees me
God bless the moon,
And God bless me
GRUMPAH
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7:28am Mon 21 Mar 11
Spanners
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8:49am Mon 21 Mar 11
lydz25
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12:25pm Mon 21 Mar 11
WakeUpYouFreaks!
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12:27pm Mon 21 Mar 11
chipmunk77 wrote:It was most certainly that colour when i saw it at 6.40pm on my way over the top of the racehill. Quite a spectacular sight, and if anything the photograph does little justice to it... although a low res jpeg on a website rarely shows the true quality of a photograph. I have to agree with the other post on here - most readers would perhaps like to have learned that the moon was at it's closest point in its cycle to the earth, and that the apparent large size when it is low on the horizon is in part down to an optical illusion caused by the eye comparing it to silhouetted foreground objects.
j.solntseff@cogeco.c a wrote: What a miserable lot you are! How about a positive comment such as, "great picture!". These people took the trouble to show us their art-work and all you can do is boast about your own cameras! AJinCanadaIt's a VERY VERY VERY predictable picture, there really isn't much more to say about it, seen ones like it a 1000 times in every poster shop, perhaps that's why we aren't impressed by it! It's also looks like it's had a trip thru photoshop as it certainly wasn't that colour!
chipmunk77 says...
1:04pm Sun 20 Mar 11
Too much information Argus, you've gone from not enough, to information overload, we are not all camera geeks!