Posts Tagged ‘Moon’

Volcanic Eruption in Iceland

The news today forecast a spectacular sunset from the UK due to the cloud of volcanic ash passing over the UK following the eruption in Iceland. The sunset from Lightwater country park was not that spectacular, but the view from Curley Hill did yield a surprise view of Venus and the New Moon emerging...

April 15th, 2010 | Danny Thomas, Observing | Read More

Blue Moon in December 2009 by Danny Thomas

Most years have twelve full moons, which occur once in each month, but the cycle doesn’t take a complete year and there is about eleven days left over. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years there is a thirteenth extra full moon which is known as a “blue moon.” As...

December 1st, 2009 | Resources, Sky Diary | Read More

Copernicus Imaged by Chris Thayer

Copernicus, a prominent lunar impact crater situated in Oceanus Procellarum , is named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543). It is over 90km in diameter and almost 4km deep. Its ‘rays’ spread up to 800Km across the surrounding mare. This ‘young’ crater...

October 30th, 2009 | Chris Thayer | Read More

The Moon Imaged by John Moore

Southern Highlands - click to enlarge

September 8th, 2009 | John Moore | Read More

The Moon, the Pleiades and Mercury by Danny Thomas

The Pleiades, New Moon and Mercury to the South. The Moon was less than 2 days old and a razor thin crescent with earth-shine illuminating the disk. This image was taken with a Williams Optics 66, focal reducer and the Canon 350 at 0.8secs.

August 17th, 2009 | Danny Thomas | Read More

Lunar Eclipse, 3rd March 2007 by Barry Bellinger

August 17th, 2009 | Barry Bellinger | Read More

The Moon by Peter Campell-Burns

This image of the moon was taken with an Orion ED80 and a Philips Toucam. A mosaic of twelve images were taken and stiched together using iMerge image-stacking and mosaic-making program by John Grove. The Moon - click to enlarge image

August 12th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More