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Lonesome55dove (aka/krazy4kardz)
January 31, 2010

JFF...POD..."Wolf" Moon...1-31-10

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1-31-10...8:23p...The "Wolf" Moon showing at 94% of full tonight. January's full moon was at peak fullness at 10:18p [PST] on the 29th in the Pacific Northwest, due to heavy cloud cover Friday and Saturday night I was not able to get a shot until tonight.

This full moon will be the largest by 14% and the brightest by 30% of 2010. Because the moon orbits in an elliptical, or egg-shaped orbit, every 29.5 days one side of the moon is closer [50,000km] to Earth than the other. These two positions are called "apogee", far way and "perigee" nearby. So when the moon is in "perigee" orbit during a full moon the moon appears bigger and brighter as is the case this month. Also Mars was in opposition to the Sun and was visible to the left of the moon which I missed.

According to some Native American tribes, January is the month of the "Wolf" moon, so named because in midwinter the packs of wolves howled hungrily outside their villages. [P1313434]

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Camera settings:
Hand-held
Shooting Mode: P [Program]
Focal length: 147.8mm
Focal length, 35mm film: 834.0mm
Shutter speed: 1/500sec
F. No: F4.5
Exposure compensation: 0.0EV
Flash: ON [Fill-in, Red-eye reduction]
White balance: Auto
ISO: 64
Macro: OFF
Metering mode: Spot
Maximum lens aperture: F2.8
Digital zoom ratio: 265/100


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