The Super Moon

Ok so the moon does orbit with an eliptical path around our earth.  And on Saturday 18th March 20011, the moon was at it's closest point to the earth aka the 'perigee' which is about 264,000km (226,179 miles) from earth.

Now this means that on this occasion the moon will appear bigger and brighter than any of it's other orbits of the earth.  So what this does mean for photographers like me, is that I get to do a bit of astrophotography on the "Cheap" side.  This is to say, that I get to use only a 6 mega pixel camera (NB:  Nikon D40) in addition to only a Sigma 70 - 300mm telezoom lens and hey presto I get a cracking shot of the moon, with out having to buy that expensive astrophtography equipment.  I'm sure that you will all agree that this is a very interesting / impressive shot of our moon.

Moving on I have seen some photographers work on the internet with regards to getting artisic with this Super Moon and I have to say their work has been mind blowing.  All I can say is that I was pretty unhappy to of been busy, other wise I too could of got more "creative" with this Super Moon (NB:  Best shot around the Moon Rise time).  But hey that's life i.e. we don't get everything we want.

Hope you all like my pic of the Super Moon

Thanks

Gaz