The "Super Blue Moon" of August 30, 2023 rising over a yet-to-be-harvested wheatfield in southern Alberta, on the night of August 30, 2023. This was t
The "Super Blue Moon" of August 30, 2023 rising over a yet-to-be-harvested wheatfield in southern Alberta, on the night of August 30, 2023. This was the second Full Moon of the month (making it a "blue Moon" by popular definition) and it was the closest Full Moon of 2023 (making it also a "super Moon" by another popular definition). I shot this from home as the weather prospects looked poor; in fact an hour earlier it was blowing a gale and peltiing rain. But the sky was clear enough to the southeast at moonrise to get a good view of the Moon in a deep blue twilight sky. Dust in the air made the Moon quite yellow, as it often is at moonrise around harvest time. Though this was not the official Harvest Moon. This is a panorama (stitched in Camera Raw) of 6 exposures for the ground and sky, each seconds with the Canon RF100-400mm lens at 300mm, and Canon R5 at ISO 400 and in crop mode. I blended in a single short exposure of 1/8 second for the Moon to retain detail in its disk, as the contrast between sky and Moon was too great, with the Moon rising about 30 minutes after sunset this night. I added a mild Orton glow with Nik Collection Color EFX.
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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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