Day two of Super Moon on the official date of 3-19-11

I could not pass up the opportunity of shooting the Moon two days in a row.  Tonight's shots did not come out the way I wanted but on the other hand I did use a tripod, 2 second mirror lock up delay and a remote shutter release so the photo below should be a bit better than yesterdays post.

The following is info from another post I just found that is about the Super Moon.

• As the moon closed with Earth, it would seem up to 13 percent larger and 30 brighter than normal,  NASA scientists said. "The full moon of March 19 occurs less than one hour away from perigee -- a near-perfect coincidence that happens only (every) 18 years or so."

Everyone is talking about it so here it is, "Super Moon"

This is Week 10 of my 2011-52 week project. I have had some setbacks last week and will be making more time for the blog. I hope to stay more consistent with photos and posts. 

This was just shot at 10:19pm 3/18/11 just outside of Dallas Oregon.

The Lens is the Pentax DA f4-5.8 55-300 and I have the 1.4x teleconverter behind the lens. I had the lens at 260mm but with the teleconverter it took it out to 442mm.

Shutter speed was at 1/250 sec at f/5.6 at ISO 400

Yes this was one of about 15 frames and the camera was hand held.
Oh Yeah, the camera is the 6.1 megapixel Pentax IST-DS shooting RAW format.

Thanks for looking, Enjoy!