I completely forgot to post the full Moon from August 18!

Yesterday’s Moon, taken with my new Canon Powershot SX30. I’ve never been able to get this kind of resolution and detail out of my previous cameras – the combination of 14.1 Megapixels and the 840mm equivalent 35x zoom are really good for this sort of Astrophotography. As usual, I stacked this photo from about 20 single exposures with Registax to get the best quality.

Today’s full Moon – unfortunately not very detailed because it got a
bit cloudy and the seeing wasn’t too good. It’s still not green, though :-).

It’s not quite full Moon yet – that’s tomorrow – but I can say safely that the Moon is definitively not green or any other colour than normal today, despite all the recent silly rumours! :-)

Yesterday was cloudy, today I caught the Moon a bit earlier and it’s already really small in the frame taken at the same focal length as usual – it’s almost the Mini-Moon at a distance of over 400.000 km!

After all that April weather today, I caught the Moon early when it was still not completely dark!

Last night during a gap in the clouds – the Moon came out :-).

That’s not today’s Moon, but yesterday’s – and it was somewhat hazy so I had to do some heavy post-processing. This is slightly oversharpenend, but I was surprised how much detail came through.

I didn’t even expect to see the Moon today, but it came through
the clouds for just a moment – perfect for April 12, Yuri’s Night!