Full Moon of July 2014 Photographers: Top - Alvaro Ibanez Perez; Alvaros Web site Bottom - Pal Vardi Nagy; Pal Vardis Web site Summary Authors: Alvaro Ibanez Perez; Pal Vardi Nagy; Jim Foster The photo above shows the full Moon rising over Daganzo de Arriba, near Madrid, Spain on July 12, 2014. The Moon always looks huge when it lies just above the horizon, but Julys full Moon may have looked even bigger than normal because it was closer. It happened to be in the full phase when it was close to the Earth. Because the Moons orbit is elliptical, its distance from Earth varies, and thus so does its apparent size. The bottom photos captured from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, nicely illustrates the difference in size between the perigean full Moon of July 11 and the full Moon of February 15, 2014, when it was near apogee. Julys full Moon appeared approximately 15 percent larger and 25 percent brighter than Februarys moon. Photo details: Camera Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL 550D; Lens: Sigma 18-200 mm DC OS; Focal Length: 5mm; Aperture: f/10.0; Exposure Time: 1/80 s; ISO equiv: 400. Bottom - Camera Model: Canon 1100D @ SW MC 102/1300; manual mode; raw; same pixel resolution;, T2. Note that both the February and July full Moons were taken using the same photographic set up. Coordinates •Daganzo de Arriba Madrid, Spain: 40.54333, -3.45722 •Cluj-Napoca, Romania: 46.7667, 23.5833 Related Links Moon at Apogee and Perigee - How Big was that Supermoon? More About Perigeum Full Moons (Supermoons) Miguel Claros Full Moon Photo of May 2014 Mohamed Laaifats Full Moon Photo of May 2014 Dario Giannobiles Moonrise Sequence Photo Student Links Using Angles to Describe Positions and Apparent Sizes of Objects Earth Observatory Moon Phases Over the Persian Gulf
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:25:20 +0000
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