Two moons

Just for the fun of it, I decided to place two images of the full moons of February and March side-by-side for comparison. Two things to be noted.

First, the full moon in March was supposed to be a supermoon, meaning that the earth and the moon are closer than normal which gives the effect that the moon is larger. Perhaps so, because I could only detect a very minimal difference in the diameter of the two images when I placed them together. Almost imperceptible.

Second, the weather condition in Bukit Mertajam had been very moody for the past week and at night, the particulates in the atmosphere had given rise to a slightly more sepia-toned moon. I had not attempted to manipulate the colour of the two images.

The moon on the right was taken on 10 Feb 2020, the Chap Goh Meh full moon, so to speak. Meanwhile, the moon image on the left was taken on 9 Mar 2020, almost a month later. In both images, my zoom lens was set at the maximum 150mm focal length. The aperture and shutter speeds might have differed slightly but that is not an important consideration here.