Crescent Moon
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The crescent moon taken with a Canon S30 camera attached to the eyepiece on the Evostar 120mm telescope. This method of photography is called eyepiece projection where the camera simply takes a photo of what is in the eyepiece. I used this method on most of my whole moon shot's |
Earthshine
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An overexposed crescent moon to show the effects of Earthshine. The darker area of the moon is lit through the Earth's light reflecting on to the moon. The bright crescent is normal reflected sunlight. 4 sec exposure, ISO 100 this time using the Canon EOS400 attached directly to my telescope |
5 day old moon
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A 5 day old moon shot taken with Canon S30 / Evostar 120 telescope (eyepiece projection) |
Just over first quarter (high res)
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Just for aesthetics, I rotated this image of a just over half moon so it faces downwards. The moon cannot reach this orientation in UK skies. However it would do if you lived near the equator where the sky sets in straight downward direction rather than the diagonal direction we are used to hear in the UK. At high magnification, the moon gets very interesting once it reaches half moon phase showing many craters and surface features. |
6 day old moon (high res)
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My best eyepiece projection moon image to date with good focussing. For this reason I have uploaded the full size LARGE resolution, a stunner! |
Full Moon - September 2005
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It has to be done doesn't it. A plain old full 'harvest' moon. Again taken with Canon S30 / evostar 120 scope via eyepiece projection. I hope someday to get a camera lens so I can do some full moon landscape shots. My current small 18-55mm lens just wouldn't do it any justice in a landscape photo. |
10 day old moon
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The 9 or 10 day old moon is one of my favourite moon phases. The main reason being what's on view at high magnification. Two quite prominent crater's namely 'Plato' and 'Copernicus' are visible. Also the Alpine valley and huge swathe of Apennine mountain range are in full view along with part of the Carpathian mountains |
Lunar Surface Features
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"The Bay of Rainbows" ('Sinus Iridum')
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This semi-circle shaped bay and the surrounding mountains are one of the most wonderful visual features on the moon and one of the most popular amongst amateur telescope owners. The diameter at its widest point is just over 146 miles.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x3 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 720x (approx)
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Plato Crater
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The 67 mile wide crater Plato. This is one of the most distinctive craters on the moon with a smooth, dark basin and 'sharp' rim. This photo was taken at approx 1500x magnification.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow stacked on top 3x barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 1500x (approx)
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Theophilus Crater
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Theophilus is 62 miles wide and 2 miles deep featuring 3 mountain peeks at its center which rise up to 1.2 miles high. Due to its shadowing, sometimes an optical illusion makes the brain see it as dome shaped rather than crater shaped so keep looking at it.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow stacked on top 3x barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 1500x (approx)
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Clavius Crater
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Clavius is a whopping 140 miles wide with a depth of just over 2.1 miles. Other smaller craters can be seen inside of the main crater. This shows that these impacts would have happened after the larger impact. Unlike the two images above, I took this photo at approx 500x magnification in order to fit the crater in frame.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx)
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Copernicus Region
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The 57 mile wide crater Copernicus dominates this photo. This is one of the most spectacular craters on the moon with a depth of 2.3 miles. The nearby Carpathian Mountains are to its upper left. Worth clicking this one to enlarge
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx) per image
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Plato & The Alpine Valley
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One of my favourite regions of the moon features Plato (also featured further up this page) and to its right, the Alpine Valley. Spectacular!
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx) per image
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Giant sand snake on the Moon ?
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Well ok its not a giant snake burrowing under moon dust, but this surface feature is an interesting one to look at.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx) per image
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Moon mosaic - Southern Limb
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This contains 2 webcam stacked images stitched together. The heavily cratered Southern Limb
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx) per image
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Moon mosaic
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This contains 4 webcam stacked images stitched together. The "chain" of 3 large craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina can be seen (middle right)
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: x2 barlow
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 480x (approx) per image
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Plato Crater / Bay of Rainbows
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A webcam moon surface shot showing Plato crater (middle top) accompanied by the Alpine Valley to its right. The semi-circle shaped 'Sinus Iridum' can be seen bottom left (aka the bay of rainbows).
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: None
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 240x (approx)
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Southern limb area
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Another webcam shot this time of an area around the moons southern limb. In this shot the distinctive crater to the left is called Cassendi
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: None
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 240x (approx)
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Schickard crater area
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The 141 mile wide Schikard Crater is an impressive sight on the Southern limb of the moon. Taken with webcam / dobsonian.
Camera: Philips ToUcam Webcam
Lenses: None
Telescope: Skywatcher 250px
Magnification: 240x (approx)
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Elongated shadows of the craters rim are cast across Plato's basin. This event can only ever be seen or photographed over a period of 24 hours or so. |

The surrounding area of Plato crater including the Alpine Mountains to its right and Apennine Mountains (bottom left) |

Look closely near the dark area of this photo and you'll notice a long dark line. This is the 70 mile long "straight wall". A fault line caused from a moonquake years ago |