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Low Moon in June Time-Lapse (14mm R5).jpg
A composite of exposures tracing the arcing path of the June 21, 2024 Full Moon low across the southern sky this night, the night after summer solstice and the night of the lowest (most southerly) Full Moon in 18 years. This illustrates the low arc of the Moon across the sky, from moonrise at left in the southeast, to just before moonset in the southwest at right.
The Moon was near its major lunar standstill in 2024, placing it more than 5° below the ecliptic at its maximum southerly declination, a point reached only every 18.6 years in the Moon's orbital precession around the ecliptic. So this was the lowest (for the northern hemisphere) Full Moon in 18 years. This has been called a "lunistice," and this year it coincided with summer solstice. when the Sun was at its most northerly point in its annual path.
As it set at right, the Moon went into the trees that blocked the view of the setting Moon near the horizon. And not long after moonrise at left, the Moon went into clouds low in the southeast, but rose out of them into clear sky for the rest of the night. So not the most ideal sky conditions but a convenient site for an all-night shoot, as this was taken from my rural backyard in southern Alberta, latitude 51° N.
TECHNICAL DATA:
This is a blend of three main long exposures taken:
- at moonrise, at left,
- in the middle of the night with the Moon due south, at centre,
- and just before moonset, at right. All blended with gradient masks.
These record the ground and sky but overexpose the Moon. In between is a series of short exposures for just the lunar disk blended onto the trio of ground/sky images. These still overexpose disk detail but do retain the Moon as sharp disks. I shot these every 1 minute but used only every 5th frame, for 5-minute spacings.
The long exposures were 30 seconds while the lunar disk images were 0.5 seconds, all at f/5.6 with the Pergear RF14mm manual-focus lens on the Canon R5. Taken from home in southern Alberta, in all-
The Moon was near its major lunar standstill in 2024, placing it more than 5° below the ecliptic at its maximum southerly declination, a point reached only every 18.6 years in the Moon's orbital precession around the ecliptic. So this was the lowest (for the northern hemisphere) Full Moon in 18 years. This has been called a "lunistice," and this year it coincided with summer solstice. when the Sun was at its most northerly point in its annual path.
As it set at right, the Moon went into the trees that blocked the view of the setting Moon near the horizon. And not long after moonrise at left, the Moon went into clouds low in the southeast, but rose out of them into clear sky for the rest of the night. So not the most ideal sky conditions but a convenient site for an all-night shoot, as this was taken from my rural backyard in southern Alberta, latitude 51° N.
TECHNICAL DATA:
This is a blend of three main long exposures taken:
- at moonrise, at left,
- in the middle of the night with the Moon due south, at centre,
- and just before moonset, at right. All blended with gradient masks.
These record the ground and sky but overexpose the Moon. In between is a series of short exposures for just the lunar disk blended onto the trio of ground/sky images. These still overexpose disk detail but do retain the Moon as sharp disks. I shot these every 1 minute but used only every 5th frame, for 5-minute spacings.
The long exposures were 30 seconds while the lunar disk images were 0.5 seconds, all at f/5.6 with the Pergear RF14mm manual-focus lens on the Canon R5. Taken from home in southern Alberta, in all-
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