Thanks to Stu (of Eunoia) for posting a photo of the Super Moon from his perspective in Europe (he was at a railway station near his home in Germany.) He reminded me that Hunky Husband and I had photographed the moon from Kansas, about 5 miles from our home. From the house, we have a beautiful view of the moon on clear days/nights; but, we have trees in neighbors' yards that prevent our getting a clear view for at least 1.5 hours after the orb clears the horizon. HH invited me to go out to a OTC parking lot to view the rising. As it happened, there were trees, there, that prevented our viewing the unobstructed moon for the first 15 minutes. There was too little light for my camera to let me take a photo of the lace-effect that the trees lent the rising moon (I hadn't thought to set the camera to exposure priority before leaving the house and didn't wish to ruin our night vision by turning on a light in the car.)
We moved on up the road about a mile, pulled onto the shoulder of the road, and snapped a few photos. The first exposure is shown, below. The moon, by that time, had cleared the horizon by about 4 degrees.
My little point-and-shoot camera is a Nikon 1J1 with the 30-110 mm lens attached and zoomed out to about 80, I think. I didn't think to check the zoom at the time I took the photos. (What do you expect from one who takes photos through the windshield?) I did zero finagling of the image. It is just as I downloaded it from the camera.
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