Starship Asterisk*

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 2:55 pm

alter-ego wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 11:37 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:47 pm

Hmm. Not sure what to make of that. Hopefully Chris or someone else will comment.

The resultant image is a creative composite of a real wide-field lunar analemma and the individual lunar images taken with a 500mm telephoto.
Read the translated copy of Betul's facebook post: (I estimate the lunar images are 2.8x larger than those in the wide-field view.)

Did you know that October 1 is the international moon observing night?
When I started shooting the Moon analemma in early July, I did not expect to encounter such a curve. After shooting for the first 13 days, I decided to continue this study for 2 months, not 1. Thus, I would see more clearly how the shape was formed.
During July and August, I shot without interruption at the hours you will see in the next images. Just in time.. For example, on a day when I could not be at home, I set the camera to intermittent shooting and took the shot
It took me a few weeks to align the photos. After each photo, I also took the Moon as a single frame, with 500 mm. (I processed these photos in the result frame by reducing them by 90%, for clarity)
Actually, I could write a lot about this photo, but I think it took 10-15 minutes to even write this description
As a result, a “♾” sign appeared again.. But it is a slightly disproportionate infinity sign.. When we examine the moon analemma photos, we can see that each of them has a different “8” sign.. This gives me inspiration to take such photos again..
Lunar Analemma
02.06.2022/25.08.2022
Sony A7RII +Samyang 18mm x53 frame (Squares showing the Moon's location)
Nikon D7100 + Nikon 200-500mm x approx. 55/60 frames
Kayseri / Turkey

Perfect, thanks. Even the long translated explanation isn't particularly clear about what was done but your one sentence gloss was. So, the overall shape and angular extent of the lunar analemma against the sky was faithfully reproduced, but each image of the moon shown was taken separately at the same time with a zoom lens and overlaid at the corresponding position of the much smaller moon on the lunar analemma path.

alter-ego wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 11:37 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:47 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:28 pm I think the featured analemma is a fake. The size of the Moon in the image is doubled or even tripled in respect the real size of the Moon. Please compare with this:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050713.html

Hmm. Not sure what to make of that. Hopefully Chris or someone else will comment.

The resultant image is a creative composite of a real wide-field lunar analemma and the individual lunar images taken with a 500mm telephoto.
Read the translated copy of Betul's facebook post: (I estimate the lunar images are 2.8x larger than those in the wide-field view.)

Did you know that October 1 is the international moon observing night?
When I started shooting the Moon analemma in early July, I did not expect to encounter such a curve. After shooting for the first 13 days, I decided to continue this study for 2 months, not 1. Thus, I would see more clearly how the shape was formed.
During July and August, I shot without interruption at the hours you will see in the next images. Just in time.. For example, on a day when I could not be at home, I set the camera to intermittent shooting and took the shot
It took me a few weeks to align the photos. After each photo, I also took the Moon as a single frame, with 500 mm. (I processed these photos in the result frame by reducing them by 90%, for clarity)
Actually, I could write a lot about this photo, but I think it took 10-15 minutes to even write this description
As a result, a “♾” sign appeared again.. But it is a slightly disproportionate infinity sign.. When we examine the moon analemma photos, we can see that each of them has a different “8” sign.. This gives me inspiration to take such photos again..
Lunar Analemma
02.06.2022/25.08.2022
Sony A7RII +Samyang 18mm x53 frame (Squares showing the Moon's location)
Nikon D7100 + Nikon 200-500mm x approx. 55/60 frames
Kayseri / Turkey

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:47 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:28 pm I think the featured analemma is a fake. The size of the Moon in the image is doubled or even tripled in respect the real size of the Moon. Please compare with this:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050713.html

Hmm. Not sure what to make of that. Hopefully Chris or someone else will comment.

Did you know that October 1 is the international moon observing night?
When I started shooting the Moon analemma in early July, I did not expect to encounter such a curve. After shooting for the first 13 days, I decided to continue this study for 2 months, not 1. Thus, I would see more clearly how the shape was formed.
During July and August, I shot without interruption at the hours you will see in the next images. Just in time.. For example, on a day when I could not be at home, I set the camera to intermittent shooting and took the shot
It took me a few weeks to align the photos. After each photo, I also took the Moon as a single frame, with 500 mm. (I processed these photos in the result frame by reducing them by 90%, for clarity)
Actually, I could write a lot about this photo, but I think it took 10-15 minutes to even write this description
As a result, a “♾” sign appeared again.. But it is a slightly disproportionate infinity sign.. When we examine the moon analemma photos, we can see that each of them has a different “8” sign.. This gives me inspiration to take such photos again..
Lunar Analemma
02.06.2022/25.08.2022
Sony A7RII +Samyang 18mm x53 frame (Squares showing the Moon's location)
Nikon D7100 + Nikon 200-500mm x approx. 55/60 frames
Kayseri / Turkey

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:28 pm I think the featured analemma is a fake. The size of the Moon in the image is doubled or even tripled in respect the real size of the Moon. Please compare with this:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050713.html

Curious3 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:22 am Does this museum piece have a name or a catalog number? Can you indicate where to find more information about it? Thank you!

Regarding the featured photos of the moon, would you not expect the curves to be smoother if they were taken exactly at the described times?

De58te wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:59 am I don't get it. The description says that the Moon returns to the same position in the sky 50 minutes and 29 later every day. So photographing it in that time table every day should result in a single image of many composite photos. Yet the Moon is in different positions in the sky. Once it is almost touching the horizon and then it is far above the horizon. I wouldn't think that is the same position of the sky.

Curious3 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:22 am Does this museum piece have a name or a catalog number? Can you indicate where to find more information about it? Thank you!