Mirage Moon Set

With the -49c temperatures in Saskatoon I was lucky to capture a mock or mirage Full Moon Set. With the lower temperature higher Density lower atmosphere meeting the warmer higher atmosphere, the small area of undisturbed atmosphere in between the two acts like a refracting lens inverting the bottom of the Moon and at around 55 seconds into the movie you can see the inverted or fake Moon rising to meet the real Moon, to eventually look like a mushroom cloud Moon. The clip consists of 130 images over a real time of 8 minutes, taken with my Canon 40D and 300mm lens with a 1.5 teleconverter.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Moon Set
• Mock Moon
• Mirage Moon

[boba5555]

Thanks for the nice comment, no they don't, I just count to 5 and then snap, plus in moviemaker for VISTA they have a fade feature which fades each image into the other to give it a real smooth look.

[boba5555]

Thanks for subscribing Roger.

[boba5555]

Thanks Ken, I have a system, I have found that if you take to many, it goes to slow, not enough images, it goes to fast and doesn't look natural, so I snap an image, wait for the image to go off my screen, which is 2 seconds, count to 3 and snap again, so 5 seconds between each image, works great for Moon Set/ Rise clips, it is hard not to loose concentration when it is -49c,lol.

[Brennna]

Absolutely beautiful. Great start to my morning.

[bunnykissd]

That is wonderful!

Do they make a camera that will take a shot every 5 seconds or something? That might make this kind of thing easier...

[Rogerblabla]

Awesome job Bob! I am subscribing sorry I haven't done it before.

[KenScottPhotography]

wow ... how did get only 130 images to flow so evenly together for such a long duration? nice ...