THE MOON

 The most interesting of all heavenly bodies to view through binoculars or telescope...and not too difficult to photograph.

 

Emersion of Antares after occultation on the 7th April 2007; digital image by eyepiece projection through a 25.4cm Newtonian reflector, 1/500th second exposure. The star reappeared in two stages a few seconds apart, as the 7th magnitude companion and then the 1st magnitude primary were uncovered by the Moon's disk.

A close-up of Mare Serenitatis; the large crater upper left is Posidonius. Digital image (using camera zoom) by eyepiece projection through a 25.4cm Newtonian reflector, 1/30th second exposure.
3 day moon vsm.jpg (4751 bytes) The three day old moon imaged through a 15cm f/4 reflector with 2X Barlow in series giving an effective focal length of 1670mm and f/11, 1/8 sec exposure onto Kodak Elitechrome 200 film.
Crescent Moon in bright twilight imaged through a Takahashi FS128 refractor.
7 day moon vsm.jpg (4501 bytes) 7 day old moon imaged through a Takahashi FS128 refractor; 1/15 sec exposure.
3Q Moon vsm.jpg (5330 bytes) 10 day old moon; 1/30 sec exposure.
14 day moon vsm.jpg (6382 bytes) Full moon close to perihelion imaged on the 28th Jan 2002; 1/60 sec.

Moon imaged on the 10th September 2003 by eyepiece projection from a 15cm f/4 RFT into a Nikon CoolPix 4500 digital camera (image is right-left inverted compared with ones above). Note libration in each image.

17 day old moon imaged on the 14th September 2003 by eyepiece projection from a 15cm f/4 RFT into a Nikon CoolPix 4500 digital camera.

24 day moon with prominent earthshine. Imaged on the 23rd September 2003 by eyepiece projection from a 15cm f/4 RFT into a Nikon CoolPix 4500 digital camera. The star at bottom right is BSC 3869, mag 6.5.