Hello Moon
April 28, 2013 8:00 PM Subscribe
A beautiful short video of a moon rise in Wellington New Zealand which puts things in perspective. (SLV)
This is the sort of video that makes me want to rent a $12000 lens.
posted by aubilenon at 8:19 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by aubilenon at 8:19 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
Is 1300mm equivalent (and good lenses) really all you need to make out people that are 2.1 km away? Wow
posted by Yowser at 8:28 PM on April 28, 2013
posted by Yowser at 8:28 PM on April 28, 2013
On Earth's final day the people huddle together in the open air on mountain tops. Fearful of the increasing violent tidal tsunamis and earthquakes. They view the last rise of the baleful moon as it hurtles towards them.
posted by Long Way To Go at 8:31 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Long Way To Go at 8:31 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
Wow, really beautiful indeed. The musical accompaniment was well done also. I particularly love the way the moon looks all watery around the edges from atmospheric distortion.
posted by Scientist at 8:32 PM on April 28, 2013
posted by Scientist at 8:32 PM on April 28, 2013
The last few evenings the full moon rising over and reflected on our lake has been beautiful as well, sometimes it's good to just perceive and enjoy.
posted by HuronBob at 9:09 PM on April 28, 2013
posted by HuronBob at 9:09 PM on April 28, 2013
Gorgeous. Thank you.
posted by purenitrous at 9:12 PM on April 28, 2013
posted by purenitrous at 9:12 PM on April 28, 2013
Is 1300mm equivalent (and good lenses) really all you need to make out people that are 2.1 km away?
I want to get one so I can make out with people from 2.1 km away!
posted by aubilenon at 9:13 PM on April 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
I want to get one so I can make out with people from 2.1 km away!
posted by aubilenon at 9:13 PM on April 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
Beautifully done indeed. Thanks.
They view the last rise of the baleful moon as it hurtles towards them.
I was thinking more along the lines of what Emerson (Ralph Waldo, not Keith) said, “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” Someone is always moving in that video, entering or leaving the scene, because it's really nothing special to have the moon come up.
posted by LeLiLo at 9:30 PM on April 28, 2013
They view the last rise of the baleful moon as it hurtles towards them.
I was thinking more along the lines of what Emerson (Ralph Waldo, not Keith) said, “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” Someone is always moving in that video, entering or leaving the scene, because it's really nothing special to have the moon come up.
posted by LeLiLo at 9:30 PM on April 28, 2013
Yet another video from Down Under showing a moon- or sun- -rise or -set and sure enough, like others I have seen, here the moon appears to be moving in the "wrong" direction.
Anyone else notice it is moving up and to the LEFT? In northern hemisphere it moves up and to the RIGHT, yes? I am still trying to grapple how it moves to the left Down Under. My brain wants to say, oh, it's just mirror image.
posted by brianstorms at 9:31 PM on April 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
Anyone else notice it is moving up and to the LEFT? In northern hemisphere it moves up and to the RIGHT, yes? I am still trying to grapple how it moves to the left Down Under. My brain wants to say, oh, it's just mirror image.
posted by brianstorms at 9:31 PM on April 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
Anyone else notice it is moving up and to the LEFT? In northern hemisphere it moves up and to the RIGHT, yes? I am still trying to grapple how it moves to the left Down Under. My brain wants to say, oh, it's just mirror image.
Turn your head upside down as best as you can, look at the moon's movement. Which way is it going?
posted by knapah at 9:33 PM on April 28, 2013
Turn your head upside down as best as you can, look at the moon's movement. Which way is it going?
posted by knapah at 9:33 PM on April 28, 2013
brianstorms: "Anyone else notice it is moving up and to the LEFT? In northern hemisphere it moves up and to the RIGHT, yes? I am still trying to grapple how it moves to the left Down Under. My brain wants to say, oh, it's just mirror image."
As it's setting for you, it's rising for people opposite you (see Ze Frank, Earth Sandwich). Imagine the ground as just a thin section of crust (without the rest of the earth around you), and imagine standing on the other side of the crust. The moon setting down and to the right is it rising for the alter-you, up and to the left.
posted by notsnot at 9:54 PM on April 28, 2013
As it's setting for you, it's rising for people opposite you (see Ze Frank, Earth Sandwich). Imagine the ground as just a thin section of crust (without the rest of the earth around you), and imagine standing on the other side of the crust. The moon setting down and to the right is it rising for the alter-you, up and to the left.
posted by notsnot at 9:54 PM on April 28, 2013
Is 1300mm equivalent (and good lenses) really all you need to make out people that are 2.1 km away? Wow
1D camera body: $6,800.
500 f/4 lens: $10,5000.
2x extender: $500.
Yes, all you need to make out people 2.1km away is $18,000 worth of optical equipment.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 10:22 PM on April 28, 2013
1D camera body: $6,800.
500 f/4 lens: $10,5000.
2x extender: $500.
Yes, all you need to make out people 2.1km away is $18,000 worth of optical equipment.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 10:22 PM on April 28, 2013
Moonwalk video. "Dean Potter walks a highline at Cathedral Peak as the sun sets and the moon rises. Shot from over 1 mile away with a Canon 800mm and 2X" (That's 1.6 km.)
Beautiful. The sunset was still lighting the rocks while the moon rose.
posted by jjj606 at 11:45 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
Beautiful. The sunset was still lighting the rocks while the moon rose.
posted by jjj606 at 11:45 PM on April 28, 2013 [2 favorites]
I'm ashamed to say that it occurred to me what brilliant pizza ad this would make.
posted by islander at 12:13 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by islander at 12:13 AM on April 29, 2013
I really needed to see something beautiful, after the crappy day I've had. That did the trick.
Thanks, salishsea.
posted by malibustacey9999 at 12:14 AM on April 29, 2013
Thanks, salishsea.
posted by malibustacey9999 at 12:14 AM on April 29, 2013
This is a great video - thanks for sharing. And I say that only partly because I live in Wellington :-)
posted by vac2003 at 12:55 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by vac2003 at 12:55 AM on April 29, 2013
Huh, he shot that down the road from my house.
I think I remember that night. The moon was like a fat pikelet sliding up the non-stick sky.
posted by Sebmojo at 1:41 AM on April 29, 2013 [8 favorites]
I think I remember that night. The moon was like a fat pikelet sliding up the non-stick sky.
posted by Sebmojo at 1:41 AM on April 29, 2013 [8 favorites]
Beautiful video, but OH, the wrenching hurting homesickness for Wellington right now.
I can close my eyes and see the view from that lookout.
Sebmojo, that was a gem of a phrase.
posted by Catch at 1:46 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
I can close my eyes and see the view from that lookout.
Sebmojo, that was a gem of a phrase.
posted by Catch at 1:46 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Catch
I wish I was in Wellington, the weather's not so good
The wind it cuts right through you and it rains hard and true
But I'd be there tomorrow, if I only could
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
posted by vac2003 at 2:09 AM on April 29, 2013 [4 favorites]
I wish I was in Wellington, the weather's not so good
The wind it cuts right through you and it rains hard and true
But I'd be there tomorrow, if I only could
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
posted by vac2003 at 2:09 AM on April 29, 2013 [4 favorites]
I have taken astonishing moon shots with a $400 Canon. It's getting easier all the time. That said, this was lovely.
posted by kinnakeet at 2:25 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by kinnakeet at 2:25 AM on April 29, 2013
The moon was like a fat pikelet sliding up the non-stick sky.This is begging to be the first line of something. Something glorious.
posted by pont at 2:26 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Haven't felt homesick for Wellington and our little flat on Sydney Street West since I left NZ in 2010, but this brought me close. This brought me close.
posted by Sonny Jim at 4:25 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Sonny Jim at 4:25 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
very beautiful.
sorry for the quasi derail, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it's so big
compared to when it's up in the sky
i know it's an optical illusion of sorts, but that's one heck of an illusion!
posted by bitteroldman at 4:32 AM on April 29, 2013
sorry for the quasi derail, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it's so big
compared to when it's up in the sky
i know it's an optical illusion of sorts, but that's one heck of an illusion!
posted by bitteroldman at 4:32 AM on April 29, 2013
Anyone else notice it is moving up and to the LEFT? In northern hemisphere it moves up and to the RIGHT, yes?
Really, we (the observers) are moving, and not the moon. For more brainwork, watch this and think of us as rotating (and falling around the earth's axis) towards a stationery moon ...
posted by carter at 4:32 AM on April 29, 2013
Really, we (the observers) are moving, and not the moon. For more brainwork, watch this and think of us as rotating (and falling around the earth's axis) towards a stationery moon ...
posted by carter at 4:32 AM on April 29, 2013
Beautiful. Thank you.
posted by Athanassiel at 5:17 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by Athanassiel at 5:17 AM on April 29, 2013
sorry for the quasi derail, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it's so big compared to when it's up in the sky
Huh. I remember reading that it's due to the visual cues of smaller objects (buildings, people) in the field of view, but if Wikipedia is to be believed there's still no consensus on the exact causes of the illusion.
Gorgeous video anyway, thanks for posting this. (Although I was mildly disappointed there was no little guy on a flying bicycle...!)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2013
Huh. I remember reading that it's due to the visual cues of smaller objects (buildings, people) in the field of view, but if Wikipedia is to be believed there's still no consensus on the exact causes of the illusion.
Gorgeous video anyway, thanks for posting this. (Although I was mildly disappointed there was no little guy on a flying bicycle...!)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2013
I'm so glad a Mars sized objected collided with Earth billions of years and the resulting debris formed the Moon. It's beautiful to have in the sky and its nighttime light is gorgeous.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:15 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:15 AM on April 29, 2013
I checked the POV with the direction of the shot and it looks like that big round thing rose from somewhere in Miramar - maybe around Park Road.
THATS. NO. MOON!!!
bloody wetas...
posted by arzakh at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2013
THATS. NO. MOON!!!
bloody wetas...
posted by arzakh at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2013
So.. moons actually can appear that big? I've been big full moons, but, I mean, this is just so huge compared to all those people! Is it a camera thing? I don't understand....
posted by The Biggest Dreamer at 7:59 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by The Biggest Dreamer at 7:59 AM on April 29, 2013
The Biggest Dreamer: It's a camera thing.
The moon always subtends .54° of the sky (about 1/666th of the sky). But you can zoom in on that part of the sky with a long lens or a telescope even, and with more extreme magnifications you can fill the frame with the moon. If a person nearby got into the picture, they'd be completely enormous and maybe their hand or face would cover up the entire moon. Plus you wouldn't be able to focus on them that close. But people who are on the moon would be so small you still wouldn't be able to see them. The people in this photo are in between those two extremes. They're (according to people upthread) 2.1 km away, so they're small enough to be framed by the moon, and big enough that you can see them.
In other words, if you double the distance away something is, it will appear half as big. So the way you do something like this is to pick a zoom level that makes the moon look the way you want, and then move further and further away from the people - until they're also the size you want. You aren't making a significant change to how far you are from the moon, so it will stay the size you wanted it, but you are getting many times as far away from the people, so they're shrinking down.
And then you go back the next day and start recording before moonrise starts.
posted by aubilenon at 8:17 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
The moon always subtends .54° of the sky (about 1/666th of the sky). But you can zoom in on that part of the sky with a long lens or a telescope even, and with more extreme magnifications you can fill the frame with the moon. If a person nearby got into the picture, they'd be completely enormous and maybe their hand or face would cover up the entire moon. Plus you wouldn't be able to focus on them that close. But people who are on the moon would be so small you still wouldn't be able to see them. The people in this photo are in between those two extremes. They're (according to people upthread) 2.1 km away, so they're small enough to be framed by the moon, and big enough that you can see them.
In other words, if you double the distance away something is, it will appear half as big. So the way you do something like this is to pick a zoom level that makes the moon look the way you want, and then move further and further away from the people - until they're also the size you want. You aren't making a significant change to how far you are from the moon, so it will stay the size you wanted it, but you are getting many times as far away from the people, so they're shrinking down.
And then you go back the next day and start recording before moonrise starts.
posted by aubilenon at 8:17 AM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
In case you have a little extra time on this Monday that you'd like to spend in this sort of mental space: Here is Radiolab's production of Liev Shreiber reading Italo Calvino's luminous short story, "The Distance of the Moon".
posted by estlin at 8:26 AM on April 29, 2013
posted by estlin at 8:26 AM on April 29, 2013
The moon always subtends .54° of the sky (about 1/666th of the sky). But you can zoom in on that part of the sky with a long lens or a telescope even, and with more extreme magnifications you can fill the frame with the moon. If a person nearby got into the picture, they'd be completely enormous and maybe their hand or face would cover up the entire moon. Plus you wouldn't be able to focus on them that close. But people who are on the moon would be so small you still wouldn't be able to see them. The people in this photo are in between those two extremes. They're (according to people upthread) 2.1 km away, so they're small enough to be framed by the moon, and big enough that you can see them.
In other words, if you double the distance away something is, it will appear half as big. So the way you do something like this is to pick a zoom level that makes the moon look the way you want, and then move further and further away from the people - until they're also the size you want. You aren't making a significant change to how far you are from the moon, so it will stay the size you wanted it, but you are getting many times as far away from the people, so they're shrinking down.
You might think that, but no. We have a giant moon.
posted by Sparx at 3:30 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
In other words, if you double the distance away something is, it will appear half as big. So the way you do something like this is to pick a zoom level that makes the moon look the way you want, and then move further and further away from the people - until they're also the size you want. You aren't making a significant change to how far you are from the moon, so it will stay the size you wanted it, but you are getting many times as far away from the people, so they're shrinking down.
You might think that, but no. We have a giant moon.
posted by Sparx at 3:30 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
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