Full frame view of the moon taken while waiting for Comet Lovejoy to come into view.
The Moon on Jan 28th, 2015, 23:54 UT
Category Archives: Moon
The Moon on November 1, 2014
A bright moon dominated the night sky on the evening of Nov 2nd, 2014. I used it as a focusing target before starting to shoot DSO’s. The image came out good enough to post here.
October 2014 Lunar Eclipse
The eclipse of the Moon on October 8, 2014. This was shot with a JVC HD Video Recorder. I made stills of the moon from the movie clips I took. Some were used to make this composite image. I never tried a video camera before for an eclipse, so this was a learning experience.
Unfortunately, before the eclipse got going good, fog came in really heavy and the totality part of the eclipse was seen for just a minute or so. Before I knew it, the moon had sank too low into the fog and was swallowed by it. I barely got a shot off. Oh, well… at least I did not scratch. LoL 🙂
Comet Panstarrs & The Moon – March 12th, 2013
Possibly the most photogenic part of Comet Panstarrs apparition occurred on March 12, 2013 and luckily, I had clear weather. I took a number of images, all with a Canon 200mm at F/2.8, a Canon XS (modified) and my little CG3 mount and a laptop. This particular image is a 2 second exposure at ISO 800.
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Comet Panstarrs & The Moon 2
I shot this at the start of the session, before the comet and the moon sank too deep into the murk. This is a one second exposure at ISO 200, Canon 200mm lens at F/2.8. Lots of twilight still, but dark enough to show a good portion of the comet’s tail.
The October 2012 Waxing Moon
This is a composite of 3 moon images into one to show the progression of the Moon’s waxing phase. All images were taken with an 8″ F/4 GSO Newtonian telescope.
Image Gallery for May 2012
Full Moon October 2007
Single image snapshot of the Moon taken with a 6″ F/5 Schmidt-Newtonian telescope.