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Lunar Eclipse 28th August 2007 by Steve Massey

Above: Sequence of the total lunar eclipse on 28th August 2007 from Sydney. SkWacher ED-100mm Refractor, My Astro Shop 20mm Super-Wide plossl and Canon A10.

 

Eratosthenes - SkyWatcher 254mm and GSTAR-EX

Eratosthenes

 

Schickard

Schickard

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Moretus and surrounding region in the south

 

Copernicus under the lighting of a 23 day old Moon. 10-inch (254mm) Newtonian and Mintron ExView camera.

Copernicus

 

Plato - 51.6 N, 9.3W
Approximately 100 kms in diamete
r. This image has been reproduced in various publications.

SkyWatcher 254mm and GSTAR-EX

Plato

 

Rupes Recta (The Straight Wall)

SkyWatcher 254mm and GSTAR-EX

The Straight Wall

 

 

Total Eclipse of The Moon
July 16-17 2000

Captured using a Sony Camcorder
mounted on a tripod.
This image has been reproduced in various publications.

Total Lunar Eclipse

 

Waning Gibbous Moon

This image is a composite of several smaller images taken from captured video frames and pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The Moon

 

Clavius 58.4S, 14.4W
Diameter 225 km. This image captured with an 10 inch reflector and home made video camera.

Clavius

 

Aristillus 33.9N, 1.2E
55 kilometres in diameter.Upper left of centre is Autolycus. captured with home built monochrome video camera with an 8 inch reflector.

aristillus

 

Goldschmidt 73.0N, 2.9W
120 kilometres. With highly degraded crater walls, Goldschmidt's western wall (left) is seen with a much newer impact crater Anaxagoras.

 

Langrenus 8.9S, 60.9E 132 kilometres. Camera LunaCam 2

 

 

Petavius 25.3S, 60.4E 177 kilometres. Camera LunaCam 2

Petavius

 

Rheita


The prominent Rheita Valley carves its way along the edge of the 70 kilometre crater Rheita at left. Metius is the large crater to the right.
Camera: Home built video camera and 250mm reflector.

 

Steinheil 48.6S, 46.5E
Steinheil is 67kilometers seen in the foreground of this image. the crater immediately behind is 66 kilometre Watt.

 

 

Tycho 43.3S, 11.2W
This image is an example of what can be achieved using a low-cost video camera and 25cm reflector. Tycho is 85 kms in diameter.The images are then dumped onto a PC via an image (frame grabbing) card.
Camera GSTAR-EX

Tycho

 

Werner 70.6S, 5.5W
Diameter 70 kms. Werner is the centre crater in this picture. To the upper left is Aliacensis. This image was captured using a surveillance video camera circuit with an 8 inch reflector. Camera GSTAR-EX

werner

 

 

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