I just retired on Friday, so the rest of my life is a long weekend.

Anyway, Wednesday night I photographed the super blue moon.
9:30 drove to a spot away from street lights. Set up camera on tripod.
10:50 Gave up, walked back to car. Too many clouds.
11:00 Some gaps in the clouds! Set up camera again. Took pics.
11:15 Went home.

Sony (A1, 200-600mm G)
600mm, 1/1000s, f/6.3, ISO 500, AF-S
Gitzo tripod (very sturdy)
interval shooting: 5s delay, 7s interval
The A1 is a dual gain sensor, so I used the 2nd base ISO of 500 to get low noise.
The A1 had no difficulty auto-focussing on the moon.


I first selected 15 pics without clouds, brought them into Photoshop, aligned them and took their mean/median, but the result was very soft. I then just selected 1 pic and sharpened it in Topaz Photo AI.

There is some artifacts on the top and bottom edge of the moon which I don’t understand, but I am pleased with the result.

Congrats on the retirement. You'll be organizing the silverware drawer soon.

bleirer said:

Congrats on the retirement. You'll be organizing the silverware drawer soon.

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I just replaced 4 light-bulbs Saturday. One was defective - it only lasted 35 years.

bleirer said:

Congrats on the retirement. You'll be organizing the silverware drawer soon.

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And keeping track of the weeks by refuse collection day. . . .

SEH said:

And keeping track of the weeks by refuse collection day. . . .

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and NFL Sunday games.

Checking the tire inflation. Very important.

Congratulation on retirement day. My Mother in Law, (German) who is 90 years young, still comes into work for 3 hrs everyday to run paperwork for the family business. She said she is a firm believer in a German saying " You rest You rust " ...... Wer rastet, der rostet ...and she does not want to rust. Keep moving, stay well!! Nice Blue Moon pic, here in MD the weather did not cooperate, too many clouds.

Congrats and nice shot.

Going through scrap books ... reminiscing about days when you were too busy to reminisce.

I wanted to try again. I selected 15 pics without clouds, brought them into Photoshop, aligned them , merged layers. Sharpened it in Topaz Photo AI, a little dehaze in Lightroom. Much sharper.