Derby and District Astronomical Society



The Full Moon

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Malcolm Neal captured this image of the Wolf Moon on the 3rd January 2026. Jupiter is also visible at lower right. Malcolm used a Sony A7RV camera with a 24-105mm lens at the 105mm end of the zoom. The picture is a combination of two images taken through an open window at around 22.15 on the night in question. One image was exposed for Jupiter with the bright moon masked out, the other exposed for the moon with the brightness reduced.  Image Credit: Malcolm Neal.




Pete Hill captured this image of the Wolf Moon rising at sunset on the 3rd January 2026. Pete used a Canon 77D camera with a Sigma 150-500 zoom lens at f/8 and 150 mm, ISO 800 and a 1/80th second exposure. The camera was mounted on a tripod with a shutter release cable.  Image Credit: Pete Hill.




Malcolm Neal captured this image of the Harvest Super Moon on the 6th October 2025. He used a Sony A7RV camera with a 600mm lens, and the image has been cropped and treated a little to bring out more detail.  Image Credit: Malcolm Neal.




This image of the Blue Super Moon of the 30th August 2023 was captured by Malcolm Neal. He used a Sony A7RV camera with a 600mm lens, sitting on a tripod with a radio remote shutter release.  Image Credit: Malcolm Neal.




This image of the Blue Super Moon of the 30th August 2023 was captured by Jim Sarsgard from Derby.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.




Iryna Eaton captured this image of the Blue Super Moon of the 30th August 2023 from Milan.  Image Credit: Iryna Eaton.




Chris Callaway took this image of the Moon on the evening of the 8th February 2020. He used a Canon 5D with a 100-400mm lens, 1/160th second exposure at f/8 and ISO 800.  Image Credit: Chris Callaway.



This photo of the 'super moon' of the 27th September 2015 was taken just a few hours before the total lunar eclipse of the 28th September 2015 by Dave Maynard, and includes the silhouette of an aircraft with contrail. Dave used a Nikon D5000 DSLR camera with a Tamron 70-300 mm lens, an aperture of F/16 and a shutter speed of 1/200 s at ISO 200.  Image Credit: Dave Maynard.



Chris Newsome took the following two pictures of the full moon from Porthmadog in Wales on the 21st November 2010. He used a Canon 20D camera and a 200mm lens. As for the exposure - well he claims that is a secret!  Image Credit: Chris Newsome.



This picture of the full moon was taken by Simon Allcock at around 08:00 am the 16th December 2005 using a Fuji FinePix A330 digital camera.  Image Credit: Simon Allcock.



Simon Allcock took the following picture of the full moon on the 16th November 2005. He used a hand held Fuji Finepix A330 digital camera looking through a 32mm eyepiece on his Meade LX90. The image was then processed in Photoshop v9.  Image Credit: Simon Allcock.



This picture of the full moon was taken by Malcolm Neal on the 16th November 2005. He used a digital camera with a 70-300 mm telephoto lens. This works out at 450 mm due to the CCD size as compared to 35mm film.  Image Credit: Malcolm Neal.



Chris Newsome took the following picture of the Moon just 14 hours prior to full on the 20th July 2005. He used a hand held Minolta Z2 digital camera, a 1 second exposure at f/3.5 and 400 ASA, and an approximately 135mm telephoto setting.  Image Credit: Chris Newsome.



Here is a photo of the rising full moon taken by Chris Newsome on the 20th June 2005. He used a Minolta Z2 digital camera, 1/25th second at f/5.6, 100ASA, 380mm, and hand held from his bedroom window! A slight unsharp mask was applied in Photoshop V7. No colour correction was made - this is how the moon looked!  Image Credit: Chris Newsome.

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