Dec'08 The Moon
© C. MilhouseThis picture of the waxing gibbous Moon was taken by C. Millhouse, and submitted to the December '08 members photo competition. The picture was taken from Blidworth, using a Canon 400D camera at 1/250th second ISO800. The camera was mounted at the prime focus of a SkyWatcher SkyMax 127 telescope.
Jan'10 Lunar Montage
© MSASThis Lunar Montage picture was submitted to the Jan 2010 members photography competition by one of the society members, consisting of four images, taken here in the uk. The image of the Moon was taken with a Canon D400 digital camera, while the three planetary images were taken using a Webcam.
Apr'07 - Moon and Venus
© G. ShepherdThe following photograph of the Moon and Venus was submitted by society member Mr G. Shepherd, for the April 2007 picture of the month. The picture was taken at 21:30 on the 18th April 2007, and features the Moon age 1d 10m, and the planet Venus. It was taken from Tattershall Bridge with a Nikon Coolpix 4300 at f2.9 with a shutter setting of 1/3.8.
Jackson Lake Wyoming
© P. RandallJackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming USA by Mr P. Randall.The photograph of the Moon Venus and Saturn over Jackson Lake, was taken at the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming USA on the 19th June 2007 at approximately 10:22PM
The photograph was taken with a Canon 300D, ISO 400 set at 30 seconds, f7.1. Sigma 18-50mm zoom set at 18mm.
May'07 Macrobius
© G. ShepherdThis picture of the Lunar crater Macrobius, with the smaller Macrobius-C was taken by society member Mr G. Shepherd using a Nikon Coolpix 4300 digital camera, through the society's 61-cm reflecting telescope, and was submitted for the May 2007 members photograpg competition.Macrobius is N.W. of the Mare Crisium.
Mar'07 Lunar Eclipse
© P. RandallThis photograph of the March 2007 Lunar Eclipse was submitted by society member Mr P. Randall.The photograph was taken at around 11:38PM on March 3rd 2007 using a Canon 300D with a Sigma 75 - 300mm Zoom lens (on a tripod). Set at 300mm, ISO 1600, 1.3 seconds at F7.1.
Nov'06 Lunar Craters
© G. JenkinsonThis photograph shows the lunar alps, the craters Archimedes (83km diameter), Autolycus (39km), Aristillus (55km) and many more. If you look towards the bottom left of the photograph you can also see the Alps vallis (180 km long). The picture was taken by Graham Jenkinson, using a 12 inch F6 telescope and Kodak elite-chrome 400asa film using eyepiece projection and a 9mm eyepiece, with a 3/4 second exposure.
Oct '06 Lunar Montage
© K. WatsonLunar Montage taken in Cyprus by K. Watson using a Philips ToUCam webcam coupled to a 10 inch Meade LX-200 telescope fitted with a neutral density filter.<p>The image is the result of 600 individual frames at 15fps, processed in registax 3. The mosaic was assembled using Photoshop CS2.
The Moon
© G. ShepherdLunar photograph taken on 3rd April 2006 at 20:45 GMT by Graham Shepherd using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and the eyepiece projection method.This photograph was taken by society member Graham Shepherd, from the observatory using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera, and the observatory's 61cm telescope via the eyepiece projection method.
The Moon
© G. ShepherdLunar photograph taken on 3rd April 2006 at 20:45 GMT by Graham Shepherd using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and the eyepiece projection method.This photograph of the Moon taken by society member Graham Shepherd, from the observatory using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera, and the observatory's 61cm telescope via the eyepiece projection method.
Posidonus
© G. ShepherdA study of Posidonus taken on 3rd April 2006 at 20:45 GMT by Graham Shepherd using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and the eyepiece projection method.<p>This photograph of Posidonus was taken by society member Graham Shepherd, from the observatory using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera, and the observatory's 61cm telescope via the eyepiece projection method.
Chrisium and Cleomedes
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 14th March 2003 at 20:45 GMT using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian Reflector.In this photograph the large area towards the right is Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crises), named by Riccioli in 1651. Mare Crisium has two small but clearly defined craters on its surface (plus a lot that can't be seen in this image).
Copernicus and Kepler
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 14th March 2003 at 20:45 GMT using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian Reflector.<p>The image was a single 350th second exposure at ISO 100.In this photograph the large crater towards the upper right is Copernicus, while Kepler is the smaller crater towards the left hand side.
Tycho and Kepler
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 18th Feb 2003 at 21:30 GMT using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian Reflector.In this image the moon is 17-days old. The large impact crater in the lower center of the image is Tycho - probably the most well known, and certainly the most visible crater on the lunar surface.
Tycho
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 18th Feb 2003 at 21:30 GMT using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian Reflector.In this image the moon is 17-days old. The large impact crater in the lower center of the image is Tycho - probably the most well known, and certainly the most visible crater on the lunar surface.
Mare Fecunditatis
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 18th Feb 2003 at 21:30 GMT using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian Reflector.In this image the moon is 17-days old, and the terminator is just beginning to appear, falling across the edge of Mare Fecunditatis (The Sea of Fertility) at the right of the image.
Mare Chrisium
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 18th Feb 2003 at 21:30 using a Canon D60 digital camera at prime focus of the Sherwood Observatory 61cm Newtonian ReflectorIn this image the moon is 17-days old, and the terminator is just beginning to appear, falling across the edge of Mare Crisium at the right of the image.
Mare Serenitatis
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 12th November 2002 at 21:30 GMT using a Canon G-2 digital camera and a Meade ETX-90EC.In this image the moon is 8-days old, and the terminator is falling across the Mare Imbrium just above the centre of the image. The large crater in the Mare Imbrium, just above the middle of the image and just on the light side of the terminator is Archimedes.
16 day old Moon
© P. DingleyLunar photograph taken at 16-days past the New Moon on 23rd September 2002 at 21:40 GMT using a Canon G-2 digital camera and a Meade ETX-90EC.No filters were used, although the resulting image converted to monochrome using Adobe Photoshop 7 - which was also used to increase the contrast and to sharpen the image slightly.
13 day old Moon
© P. DingleyLunar photograph taken at 13 days after the new Moon on 19th October 2002 at 18:00 GMT using a Canon G-2 digital camera and a Meade ETX-90EC.<p>The bright white crater towards the right of the image just above the centreline is Aristarchus, while Copernicus is the large crater just to the right of centre, and Tycho can easily be seen towards the bottom of the image.
10 day old Moon
© P. DingleyLunar photo taken on 14th November 2002 at 20:30 GMT using a Canon G-2 digital camera and an Orion Europa 250mm Newtonian.<p>In this image the moon is 10-days old, and the terminator has moved a little further across Mare Imbrium and well past Archimedes, which now in almost full sunlight is much harder to make out than at 8-days old.
