1st Post The Moon

LeeKay · #1 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 05:19 PM

A big hello from me, Iam new to astrophotography and ive found this forum very helpful.

Heres the newbie bit -The enclosed pictures were took using my digital cam, its just a HP R607 and it was attached to a Leica televid 77. (I have had to downscale the quality to get them to post) They are far from perfect i know but i thought i would share them with you

Ive just purchaced a Meade ETX 90, it wont be here till Tueday or Wedneday next week.

Arneb · #2 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 08:24 PM

Hello, LeeKay, and welcome to the forum. A very nice and promising start here, these two images of the Moon!

hhEb09'1 · #3 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 09:02 PM

Nice. I've enjoyed my ETX, will you have an camera adaptor for yours?

Melusine · #4 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 09:09 PM

Welcome! Those are very pretty...some nice crater detail. Enjoy your new Meade, and please share more.

Nicolas · #5 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 09:25 PM

Nice!

A lot better than my standard cam pics

. Keep posting nice photo's!

LeeKay · #6 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 10:06 PM

Thanks for the warm welcome, I have already brought a camera adapter for the Meade.
Set to have poor weather here for the next week or so (usually the way!) But i hope to bring you some good pics. Here is a few more pics,Took whist camping last year. Note the Light pollution is 2 miles away in the Hyades Image, the other image is 3x into the milkyway overhead in Cygnus.

Melusine · #7 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nicolas

Nice!

A lot better than my standard cam pics

. Keep posting nice photo's!

LeeKay, any way to get those stars brighter? It's real hard for me to see them on my computer at work. Maybe I should turn out the lights...

LeeKay · #8 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 11:18 PM

At full resolution the pics are fine...the down grading i have to do to post them takes alot out, sorry. But they were both took using back and white, i could run them through a program to push up the contrast or somthing

LeeKay · #9 (**permalink**) 17-March-2006, 11:28 PM

Turned a few dials to make these easyer to see in the light

Melusine · #10 (**permalink**) 18-March-2006, 02:28 AM

Thanks, first pic definitely has more stars (and I'm no longer under bright fluorescent lights). I can better see the vegetation. You're close to Shropshire...pretty countryside.

Good luck!

suntrack2 · #11 (**permalink**) 18-March-2006, 08:38 AM

thanks leekay for the photo, very nice one,
Melusine do you remind that photo of sun and moon together, this moon is just looking like the same "a view from northpole".

sunil

Ahmad.ra · #12 (**permalink**) 18-March-2006, 08:56 AM

Great work!
Thanks.

Melusine · #13 (**permalink**) 18-March-2006, 06:47 PM

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Sunil wrote:
Melusine do you remind that photo of sun and moon together, this moon is just looking like the same "a view from northpole".

An astronomer really needs to explain this photo that has circulated email at mach speed over the years. Snopes doesn't do it.

Not to threadjack LeeKay's first post, but yes, Sunil, in a way it could remind one of that photo, but I am under the impression from reading that a crescent moon like that photo's would only appear near the equator. Forget the other factors--there is water at the North Pole and its environs; there is ice that looks dirty from shadows and hence land...it's just the position of the moon to sun that's crucial. It should be astronomically explained or debunked, but I won't be any good at doing so.

Here are sites that mention the moon and the North Pole:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...derquest_x.htm

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/.../maan.html#v47

http://www.astrosociety.org/educatio...tnl/12/12.html

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/planeta...-pole-moon.htm

For grins:
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/NorthPole/NorthPole.htm

hhEb09'1 · #14 (**permalink**) 18-March-2006, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Melusine

An astronomer really needs to explain this photo that has circulated email at mach speed over the years. Snopes doesn't do it.

Here's a fixed link to that photo.

Nice pic, but the moon's image in the photo has about 15-20 times the radius of the sun's. Ain't possible, they should both be about the same size, even from the north pole, even with telephoto lens.

mickal555 · #15 (**permalink**) 20-March-2006, 03:25 AM

Cool

isis · #16 (**permalink**) 24-March-2006, 04:50 PM

I see the "Cheshire Cat" moon fairly often... I'm at 18N if that makes a difference.

Melusine · #17 (**permalink**) 25-March-2006, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by isis

I see the "Cheshire Cat" moon fairly often... I'm at 18N if that makes a difference.

Here is yet another explanation to add to my pile of crescent-moon explanations:

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Q: The moon, now, (on March 25) is a crescent that looks like the Cheshire Cat smiling down at us — I almost never see it looking this way. Why does the crescent moon look like a grin? (Al, Washington D.C.)
The Crescent Moon’s outside curve “points” to the Sun and the horns stick up. [NASA]
A: It is uncommon to see it that way. The Crescent Moon grins, with its horns pointing straight up, only once every 7 to 14 months at our mid latitudes. The Moon smiles because it snuggles up to the Sun when crescent.

...and...

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Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up. There the Sun and Moon follow a path that is always at a shallow angle to the horizon. "The Crescent Moon will always appear to lean somewhat, even a couple of days after a New Moon," says Robert Massey, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

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