{"id":43945,"date":"2026-03-21T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43945"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:34:19","slug":"20-mar-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43945","title":{"rendered":"20 Mar 26!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending much of the day getting ready for traveling home, the sky gave a nice show. \u00a0That funny white dot is the crescent Moon with the dark side illuminated with Earthshine. \u00a0Neat in person, not too bad for a cellphone!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032001.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little closer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032002.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as a close up*\u2026while it looks like you can see features on the dark side the lighted side is completely blown out. \u00a0This is the main reason other than size \u00a0(the Moon is much smaller than it appears) that Moon photos don\u2019t work: \u00a0When you shoot the Moon, what you are doing is shooting a DAYTIME shot. \u00a0What you see is the sunlight, just like what we see in the daytime, and you need to expose for DAYLIGHT. \u00a0It s not a nighttime photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032003.jpg 557w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26032003-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*While cellphones are great cameras and some take amazing sky photos, there are some technical limits. \u00a0My 400mm Canon telephoto will give a completely, and much more details, image. \u00a0This is as good as it gets with my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in Arizona for one more night! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending much of the day getting ready for traveling home, the sky gave a nice show. \u00a0That funny white dot is the crescent Moon with the dark side illuminated with Earthshine. \u00a0Neat in person, not too bad for a cellphone! A little closer. And as a close up*\u2026while it looks like you can see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,70,3,69,8,35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-landscapes","category-life-aa-a-snowbird-in-2026","category-life-at-home","category-pad-2026","category-photography","category-sunsets","category-technical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43952,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions\/43952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}