Festive Supermoon

Sunday, December 3, 2017


A "supermoon" hangs over a festive array of Christmas lights on White Ivy Place NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 6:06 am CST on Sunday, December 3, 2017 as it was setting in the west.
This image is a 0.8-second exposure at f/5.6, 640 ISO and 70mm focal length. Air temperature
was a frosty 27 degrees F. The moon here was composited from the image seen below.


This 300mm zoomed shot of the supermoon was also captured at 6:06 am and is a 1/250-second exposure at f/7.1, 200 ISO. Official full moon for this area occurred at 9:48 am, almost three hours after moonset. The moon was 8% wider and 16% brighter than average. A supermoon is defined as a full moon that coincides with the closest distance that it comes in relation to the Earth, resulting in a larger-than-normal size. This was the closest full moon for all of 2017. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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