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2016-11-12
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Sharing a bottle of Chablis and waiting for the extra big moon around the 14th...
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2016-11-12
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It's the 12th, man! How long do you expect one bottle to last?
Talking about booze and cosmic affairs... Have you seen this? We at work have concluded what it was. The ISS crew jettisoned the beer keg after the Armistice Day celebrations.
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2016-11-13
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2016-11-13
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Please share your moon shine!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YP2ug15Uzm..._moon-wide.jpg
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2016-11-13
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Nice picture but unfortunately that's pretty heavily edited composite image
If it was shot on a real situation, for the FOV it'd require just about 1000mm tele with a 1.6 crop DSLR (the angular FOV is about 1.4 degrees as far as I can estimate) and the atmospherical clarity does not match that kind of distance.
Also getting a balanced exposure is not possible from that kind of setup; remember that the surface of the moon is in bright sunlight (exp. f8, iso100, 1/200s) and the surroundings are in near darkness...
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2016-11-14
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2016-11-14
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why do we call our moon the moon. But we gives the moons of other planets actual names.
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2016-11-14
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Sorry to provide a boring answer but the fact is that it is actually the other way around. We have called our moon the Moon for millennia. It was always special, the biggest and brightest celestial object after the Sun. It even occupied its own celestial sphere. No wonder we gave it a name.
Then came the 17th century and we found out that our Moon is just a natural satellite and that other planets have their moons too. It was too late to rename ours so we had to come up with names for theirs.
Bot our Moon is special after all. There is no other planet we know of that has a moon so large in relation to its host planet's size. Pluto's moon is larger, to the point that Pluto and its moon orbit a common centre of gravity that is outside the Pluto's interior. But sadly, Pluto is no longer a planet so our Earth-Moon system is unique again.
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2016-11-14
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Sorry to provide a boring answer but the fact is that it is actually the other way around. We have called our moon the Moon for millennia. It was always special, the biggest and brightest celestial object after the Sun. It even occupied its own celestial sphere. No wonder we gave it a name.
Then came the 17th century and we found out that our Moon is just a natural satellite and that other planets have their moons too. It was too late to rename ours so we had to come up with names for theirs.
Bot our Moon is special after all. There is no other planet we know of that has a moon so large in relation to its host planet's size. Pluto's moon is larger, to the point that Pluto and its moon orbit a common centre of gravity that is outside the Pluto's interior. But sadly, Pluto is no longer a planet so our Earth-Moon system is unique again.
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