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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 10, 2016 - 09:25pm PT
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If you are in the Valley tomorrow you might have a chance to get the Moon over Half Dome... from the Ahwahnee Meadow between 5:00pm and 5:15pm PST based on my calculations and the position of the Moon tonight.
I might make the trip, the clouds seem to be making a delayed appearance. But even without clouds, the November atmosphere tends to be very moist and that can obscure the Moon rise until it is very high above Half Dome.
Sunset is around 5:00pm PST, so the scene should still be lit.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 11, 2016 - 10:12pm PT
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clouds just at the moment... the Moon always seems to play coy with me...
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 11, 2016 - 10:19pm PT
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The nearly full moon was rising over the Idaho creek I was fishing this evening.
Catch & release fly fishing was great this evening.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 12, 2016 - 09:24am PT
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Super Moon
Coming Monday
Eastern standard time will be at 6:28?
Wait . . . . . AM? Eastern Standard time?
That seems wierd but for y'alz
It will be great
Have a howl
Be stoked
Even as we grow joules
Today's Youth has be da end itz
So us old geezers
Will hold forth the
Lunacy
Respectability be damned
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2016 - 11:08am PT
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so I noticed that my prediction was off, the Moon rose in a different position. Comparing predictions to actual observation is what science is about, and it is often humbling to learn that you got it wrong, and getting it wrong is very usual.
Looking back at my calculation I saw that I read "semi-diamter" as "diameter" instead of "radius" and that caused me to incorrectly scale the webcam image. Taking that into account I get the "prediction"
the dashed cross hair is the position at 4:51, which corresponds to my first sighting of the Moon on Half Dome's Southwest shoulder
here is the "prediction" ontop of the image, the agreement is within about 1 lunar diameter, or about 0.542º which is not bad for this work... this might be accounted for by my displacement from the webcam, which was about 20m behind me and North, and up about 5m.
It would have been nice to have had the luck of patchy clouds in the scene and a clear view of the Moon, but it is what it is. If you aren't actually there you won't get that shot, luck or not.
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john hansen
climber
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Nov 12, 2016 - 01:32pm PT
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I am going to be checking the Web Cam around 4:50 today for sure
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2016 - 02:15pm PT
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here's a viewers guide...
unfortunately for photography, the Sunset is around 5pm, so these will be scenes with dark images of Half Dome (at best)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Nov 12, 2016 - 03:55pm PT
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Thanks so much, Ed!
What a Wonderful World!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2016 - 05:52pm PT
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my calculation had the Moon's center on the profile at 5:41, this is the 5:42 image, which should be displaced by about 0.243º, the Moon's radius is 0.278º, and the image shows the profile is not quite a radius different...
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Nov 12, 2016 - 06:00pm PT
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Shot from my house previously
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2016 - 06:03pm PT
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tomorrow, look at 6:10pm
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Nov 12, 2016 - 06:03pm PT
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I'm excited. I'm going to be up at DeadHorse State Park near Canyonlands tomorrow night. Wish I had a decent camera.
Susan
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Nov 12, 2016 - 07:25pm PT
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Nov 12, 2016 - 08:20pm PT
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What a wonderful core group of people, sharing all the beauty. Gracias!!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 12, 2016 - 09:08pm PT
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SC seagoat...
should rise at 76º bearing just a bit before 5:00 pm over La Salle Pk and Mt. Waas viewed from Dead Horse Pt.... though it is not my neck of the woods...
Sunset is around then too, so you might get some nice images!
Telephoto to the max...
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Nov 12, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
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^^^. Thank you Ed. The moon and the canyons backdrop should be something. Weather prediction is clear!!!!
Susan
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 13, 2016 - 01:25am PT
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maybe belongs in Reflections?
but I'm Blanched. From her threads
don't mention this gnome around the Luthier's wife . . .
fuzzy focus I see a duck, lookin' left.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Nov 13, 2016 - 05:01pm PT
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We strive to capture the moon,
but we cannot.
What we don't realize
is that in those moments of trying,
the moon captures us.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Nov 13, 2016 - 07:40pm PT
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Nov 12 moon taken at 5:03 pm
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 13, 2016 - 08:14pm PT
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At 11:39 PST over the Central Valley, the moon will be at its meridian and will be at 99.87% illumination and only 221,539 miles from Earth.
Roughly.
It's a pleasure posting here to this thread, Lynnie.
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