Tonight was a full moon. Not only that, but the moon was at perigee. What that means is that the moon was full at the point it was closest to the Earth in it’s elliptical orbit.
From The Royal Observatory Greenwich
“On average, the Moon is 378,000 km away, and at furthest, it is 399,300 km away from the Earth’s surface. So the full Moon is 6% closer than average, and so 11% brighter than average! (Or, to put it another way, it is 11% bigger & 20% brighter than when the Moon is at its furthest point away from us).”
NASA estimated that the moon could appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons this year.
What that meant to me was I could try shooting it with my 200mm lens rather than my 300mm lens, which is a little soft fully extended.
The above shot is a 100% crop of the photo I took. Not something that could be printed, but pretty nice for the Web.
nice one, jay