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THE MOON
Moon rising a day past full 14th December 2008 & Santa?
Canon Eos 350D - 300mm Zoom lens.
The Moon & Mercury
1.6 day old waxing crescent Moon
and Mercury
side by side in the evening dusk 10deg above the horizon at 10PM on the 6th of
May 2008.
Full Moon rising over Dromoland
Castle. 30.07.07
Lunar Eclipse 03.03.07
I made the decision to head to the west
Clare coast for the eclipse late yesterday.
Am I glad I did! The weather there was perfect and the skies were pitch black.
I set up my humble ETX 125 with a binoviewer and wide angled eyepieces.
The views of the moon through this set up are simply amazing...
There is a real sense of 3D's through it.
I had thought about attaching the Canon to the ETX but I reckoned
it might look cool to get a timelapse shot of the whole thing.
After a quick phone call to Dave Lillis for some advice I headed off to the
beach.
The shot is actually with my back to the coast
(obviously enough as the moon was rising in the East)
The ruin of the cottage is right on the cliff and the water
on the ground is off the spray from the waves.
I took a bunch of foreground shots first with the Moon overexposing.
(turned out to be a nice effect) then just clicked away every 10 or 15 min.
Just before midway through very high misty clouds rolled in and you
can see some of the moons in the shot are blurred.
Ho-well, them's the breaks...
Overall, I must say, I know some people don't think a Lunar Eclipse
is anything that special.
I have to wholeheartedly disagree!
Full Moon, Shannon, 07.09.06
Wow! The Moon was super bright tonight at Mag -12.42.
I'm surprised I got as much detail as I did.
2 Shots (top & bottom half) merged in Photoshop.
Levels auto adjusted in Canon image editor.
90% unsharp mask in Photoshop.
Scope: Meade ETX-125 PE,
Camera: Canon Eos 350D,
Prime Focus,
1/1000 sec,
ISO: 200.
16.09.06
Almost half moon.
7 images stacked and processed in Registax.
Canon Eos350D
Meade ETX-125PE
26.04.07
The much photographed crater CLAVIUS
which contains an impressive arc of craters reducing in diameter from the rim.
Scope: Meade ETX-125.
Camera: Modified Philips SPC900NC webcam with IR filter.
2 X Barlow
2min AVI processed in Registax & Photoshop.
Plato
Terminator Peaks
Date unkown.
Copernicus
26.04.07
15.09.07
TYCHO, a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands.
Scope: Meade ETX-125.
Camera: Modified Philips SPC900NC webcam with IR filter.
2 X Barlow
1min avi processed in Registax & Photoshop.
15.09.06
Clavius
07.09.06
Moon Detail, 7th Sep 2006. Shannon, Ireland.
Very bright full moon (Mag -12.42)
GRIMALDI, a very dark lava filled crater resembling a sea at the top middle
of this image sits above the craters HEVELIUS & CAVALERIUS which form
an interesting couple in the North West quadrant.
Scope: Meade ETX-125.
Camera: Modified Philips SPC900NC webcam with IR filter.
2min avi processed in Registax & Photoshop.
0709.06
Moon Detail, 7th Sep 2006. Shannon, Ireland.
Very bright full moon (Mag -12.42) so good contrast at the terminator was hard to find.
This detail is of the North West quadrant.
The 60 mile wide circurlar walled plain, PLATO, is visable at the top right.
The crater,PYTHAGORAS, seen in the bottom left is 78 miles wide and 14,500 ft high.
It's double central mountain is clearly visible.
Scope: Meade ETX-125.
Camera: Modified Philips SPC900NC webcam with IR filter.
3min avi processed in Registax & Photoshop.
05.09.06
Moon Detail, 5th Sep 2006. Shannon, Ireland.
Almost full moon.
The craters CARDANUS & KRAFFT seen here just above center of frame,
form an interesting couple on the North West terminator.
These craters are each approx 30 miles wide & 7000ft high at the crater walls
formed roughly 3.8 billion years ago.
Scope: Meade ETX-125.
Camera: Modified Philips SPC900NC webcam with IR filter.
2min avi processed in Registax & Photoshop.
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