Flavien Bauvais in particular left his work at the speed of light, this Tuesday, January 14 in the evening, to capture a magnificent shot at precisely 6:19 p.m. A moonrise just above the belfry of Angoulême Town Hall.
“I set up at La Couronne, 5 kilometers from Angoulême town hall, with my Canon R7 equipped with a Sigma 150-600 mm telephoto lens. It’s like having a small telescope so you have to plan carefully in terms of placement and orientation. This is done in advance with an application which allows you to know where exactly the moon will rise. Afterwards, all that remains is to have fun on Google maps and Géoportail to find the ideal place at the right altitude.
The young astrophotographer publishes one photo per week on his Instagram account, followed by 60,400 followers. It captures moonrises, northern lights, the Milky Way and constellations.
“We walked on the Moon.” Seen from Angoulême.
Pascal Dulac
The Ruellois photographer Pascal Dulac was also in the front row so as not to miss anything of the spectacle of the sky. And offer us a modern version of We Walked on the Moon. Not that of July 20, 1969, the day when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Earth’s natural satellite. Nor that of the designer Hergé who, in November 1954, imagined (already) Tintin and Captain Haddock conquering the star.
Pascal Dulac suggested a more modern version of the event by capturing, this Monday, January 13, the astonishing image of the flags at the top of the Angoulême town hall which wave and seem to be planted on the southern part of the Moon.
“This full moon rising was ideal, the sky clear and the sun still present to warm up the Town Hall,” explains Pascal Dulac. “From the golf course, the Moon rose behind the belfry before passing over the Lusignan tower.”
“Lunar Illusion”
Why do the Moon or rather the Moons photographed by Flavien Bauvais and Pascal Dulac appear so imposing? This is the optical effect known as the moon illusion, often enhanced by the use of a telephoto lens. When the Moon is close to the horizon, our brain perceives it as larger in comparison to terrestrial objects (like buildings or a bell tower), even though its actual size in the sky has not changed.
There is also a compression effect: the telephoto lens or powerful zoom compresses the perspective, visually bringing distant objects (the Moon) closer to those in the foreground (the bell tower), giving the impression that the Moon is gigantic compared to the environment.
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