The waning quarter Moon, overexposed here, below the galactic centre as the Milky Way in Sagittarius and Scorpius rises in the east as seen from Australia, at latitude 32° South. Some clouds are moving in. The sky is blue from the moonlight. This is a single frame from the end of a 500-frame time-lapse sequence, each frame 40 seconds at f/2.5 with the Rokinon 14m lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
The nearly Full Moon of April 10, 2017 as seen from Australia, and embedded in fast-moving low cloud adding the colourful corona effect around the Moon from water-droplet diffraction. Being in the southern hemisphere, the Full Moon appears “upside-down” compared to a northern view. This is a 6-image blend of exposures from 1/2 second to 1/20-second to capture both the faint clouds and bright Moon. I blended them with luminosity masks (generated with ADP Panel+ Pro) rather than attempting an HDR stack which rarely works well for the Moon.
