The Moon Tonight

There was a stunning moonset this morning, on my drive into work looking over the North Downs, the Moon was just on the horizon around 7:15am. I tried to get a photo with my mobile phone camera but it was useless. I'm taking my digital camera with me tomorrow in case it's as beautiful. So tonight I had a practice, trying to find the best manual settings. It's a bit blurry and the contrast isn't great, I should have used a tripod too.



Am I right in thinking that the Moon will be in approx the same position tomorrow morning, maybe 20 minutes later and shifted to the east a bit?

 

Good morning John an excellent image ,great shot as Dave has already said you won,t get much better than that,your almost there.

 

Thanks for that Dave, I had tried to sharpen up/adjust the contrast in PS, but it's a trade off with losing quality/detail. I'll try and find that 'curve' adjustment next time. I'm no expert with photoshop, I've only really used it on portraits to get rid of red-eye and touch up blemishes in the past. So it's been a useful experiment for me. I'll have to try again when it's a half moon and the crater shadows help give some depth.

Kristen: Thanks for the explanation of where the moon will be next. That's very useful. Unfortunately it was too cloudy this morning to even catch a glimpse of it.

Victora; yes I am quite pleased with myself, never having tried a shot like that before. I took about 20 or 30 images before finding settings that were just about right. That's the great thing with digital cameras, you just keep trying and the moon was a willing subject.