Lunar Gallery
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6th May 2008 - 9:40pm - Paul Buglass took this nice image of the new Moon (32 hours old) and Mercury, using his Canon 350D digital SLR with a 200mm lens. |
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23rd November 2007 - John Roberts took this contrasty image of the near full Moon, using his Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus of a Revelation 80mm Apo refractor. |
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12th November 2007 - Martin Whipp took this lovely image of the young crescent Moon, using his Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus of a Megrez 90mm Apo refractor. The image was taken in Australia from near Adelaide, which explains the unusual orientation :-). |
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7th August
2007 - Simon Howard took this image of the waning Moon as
it began occulting the Pleiades, using his Canon 350D
digital SLR with a 300mm lens. The image was captured at
about 1:05am on the Tuesday morning. The brighter stars in the Pleiades can be seen to the lower left of the Moon. |
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3rd March 2007 - Martin Whipp took this lovely image of the total lunar eclipse on this night, using his Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus of a Skywatcher 80ED refractor. This image was taken at the event held outside the Yorkshire Museum in the centre of York. The event, which was organised by Martin Lunn from the Museum, was well attended with many visitors there to enjoy the eclipse experience and also taking the opportunity to observe Saturn through YAS's 12" Meade scope. |
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2nd February 2007 - John Lockett took this image of the near full Moon in conjunction with Saturn. He used his 80mm Apo x 0.8 FR and a Canon 20D digital SLR. The Moon was a single 1/400s exposure at ISO 200. A tiny bit of unsharp masking was applied and a bit of contrats adjusting in Photoshop. A second exposure was taken for Saturn using the same setup but an exposure of only 1/160s. The two images were combined with Photoshop. |
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20th January 2007 - Martin Whipp took this lovely image of the 1 day old crescent Moon and Venus with his Canon 350D at about 17:20 in the evening. |
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7th September 2006 - Martin Whipp took this image of the partial lunar eclipse from the YAS observatory site just after the Moon had risen. He used a Canon 350D attached to a Skywatcher 80ED refractor. |
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7th September 2006 - Martin Whipp took this image of the partial lunar eclipse from the YAS observatory site just after the Moon had risen. He used a Canon 350D and a 300mm lens. |
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7th September 2006 - Martin Whipp took this image of the partial lunar eclipse from the YAS observatory site just after the Moon had risen. He used a Cannon 350D attached to a Skywatcher 80ED refractor. |
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7th September 2006 - Martin Whipp took this image of the partial lunar eclipse from the YAS observatory site just after the Moon had risen. He used a Cannon 350D at prime focus of a 10" F6 Dobsonian . |
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30th May 2006 - Martin whipp took this image of the 5 day old Moon deliberately overexposed to show the Earthshine lighing up the side of the Moon which is un-lit by the Sun. If you look carefully you can see the darker mare on the un-lit side. The camera was a Canon 350D digital SLR. |
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30th May 2006 - Martin whipp took this image of the 5 day old Moon. The camera was a Canon 350D digital SLR. |
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This lovely
image of the New Moon and Venus was taken by John Lockett
on 4th
December 2005. John used a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR at F
5.6, and 1/8 s exposure at ISO 800. It was
hand held with an EFS 17 – 85mm image stabilised
lens at 70mm focal length. Click on the image to see a full sized version - 90kB - (and use the "back" button on your browser to return to this page). |
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15th November 2005 - Paul Buglass and Martin Whipp captured this image of the limb of the almost full Moon. It shows the topology of the limb very well. |
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16th May 2005 - Paul Buglass took this image of the first quarter Moon with an Skywatcher 80ED refractor and Toucam Pro web cam. Three images were taken and made into a mosaic using iMerge, written by Jon Groves. For each image about 100 frames were captured, then aligned and stacked using Registax 2. The final image was reduced by 50% to fit on this page. |
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16th May 2005 - Paul
Buglass took this image of the Moon with a Celestron
Celestar 8 SCT and Toucam Pro web cam. About 500 frames
were captured, then the best 40 or 50 frames were aligned
and stacked using Registax 2. The final image was reduced
by 75% to fit on this page. The large crater left of center is Archimedes (50 miles), and the two smaller craters to its right are, from top to bottom, Autolycus (24 miles), and Aristillus (33 miles). The eroded crater to the lower right is Cassini (35 miles), with the smaller Cassini A (10 miles), inside it. |
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16th May 2005 - Paul
Buglass took this image of the Moon with a Celestron
Celestar 8 SCT and Toucam Pro web cam. About 500 frames
were captured, then the best 40 or 50 frames were aligned
and stacked using Registax 2. The final image was reduced
by 75% to fit on this page. The 3 craters from top to bottom center are Arzachel (97km), Alphonsus (118km), and Ptolemaeus (153km). The small crater in Ptolemaeus is Ammonius, and it is only 9km (5 miles), in diameter. The small crater below Ptolemaeus is Herschel, named after William Herschel), and is 41km in diameter. |
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John Roberts took this image of Jupiter (small object to the left of the Moon), just before it was occulted by the Moon. IT was taken some time ago from the YAS "hut" observatory site. |
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An atmospheric image of the Moon taken by John Roberts from the YAS observatory site. |
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Images of the Moon taken by Lyn Smith using an Olympus Camedia C 4000 digital camera held to the eyepiece of a 150 mm Celestron Nexstar SCT. |
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Image of the Moon taken by Lyn Smith using an Olympus Camedia C 4000 digital camera held to the eyepiece of a 150 mm Celestron Nexstar SCT. |