US Naval Observatory 		Shown to the left is the current phase of the Moon.
This is linked to the US Naval Observatory
to provide a constant update of the phase.

The images below are stills processed from a short 'AVI' using a Philips Toucam attached to the 14" f10 SCT at Doncaster Astronomical Society's Observatory on 23/9/2005 at 23:30 BST. I used Registax v3 and Photoshop v7 to process.

Craters Aristoteles & Eudoxus.Cassini & Caucusus Mts
Theaetetus, Aristillus & AutolycusArchimedes & Apollo 15 site at Hadley
Craters Eratosthenes & Apennine Mts

Images of the Moon taken by myself with an SLR Fujitsu camera fitted with a 500 telephoto-lens. Exposure setting was set at F2.8 and a range of time exposures from 10 to 20 seconds. These are two sets of photos recording Total Eclipses of the Moon during the 1990's, probably 1997 and 1999. So the lesson learned from this is: always make notes of imaging details, camera type etc.

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Updated 20/8/2006

All images are Copyright © 2006 John Cox
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