Observation by Simon Dawes: Pink Super Moon

Uploaded by

Mr Simon Francis Dawes

Observer

Simon Dawes

Observed

2020 Apr 07 - 21:00

Uploaded

2020 Apr 08 - 09:53

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

Sky Watcher MN190
EQ6 Pro
ZWO ASI 1600 Pro Mono

Exposure

3000 frames

Location

Bexleyheath, Kent (S.E. London really), England

Target name

Pink Super Moon

Title

Pink Super Moon

About this image

There was a lot of media hype about the pink super moon, my Son's girlfriend was going to get up at 3am because that is when it would be at it's best!

It's great to have astronomy and science in general in the news, but the level of hype this had could only lead to disappointment. I imagine hardened lunar observers were able to use the slighting larger angular size to eek out a little more detail but the average joe would have been disappointed.

Anyway here is my observation of it, it's not as ghastly as I expected...

Files associated with this observation

Pink Super Moon.jpg (1.8 MB)

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Ray Emery, Jeremy Shears, Graham Winstanley, Nick James, Martin Crow, Andrew Dumbleton, Honor Wheeler, Mr Simon Francis Dawes

Comments

Nick James, 2020 Apr 09 - 07:05 UTC

Simon. You should have sent that to the BBC. They love publishing pictures like that.

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