Introduction |
On this Web Site you can find images of
Earth´s satellite taken through a small
telescope.
I use a video camcorder to take the images. In spite of
the simple technique (in comparison to eye-piece projection
or CCD imaging), I am quite satisfied with the results
(you can see much better images at some of the sites listed
in my moon-links).
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Lunar
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Recent
Images |
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2010 February 21
A nice 22° Halo around the moon |
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2009 April 7
A journey along the lunar terminator from
Tycho crater to Mons Rümker. |
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2009 April 6
more lunar images with the 80mm ED: Clavius,
Schiller, Aristarchus and a comparison between the
QHY5 and DMK21 for lunar imaging. |
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2009 April 1
The Ariadaeus Rille in a C-11
and an 80mm ED refractor. |
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2009 March 7th
Clavius, Cassini, Schiller &
Hainzl |
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2009 February 5th
Clavius and Kopernikus with a
110mm Schiefspiegler. |
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2009 February 2nd
A bunch of pictures showing features
on the terminator of the 1st quarter moon. |
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2009 January 8th
Aristarchus and Schiller with
the QHY5 camera. |
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2008 November 10th
Aristarchus, Wargentin
& Marius Hills with handheld Fuji F31fd |
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2008 October 14th
An image of the full
moon with an interactive legend to highlight some
areas of interest. |
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2006 October 10
Moon |
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2004 November 05
Tilted Moon Images
- With a technique devised by J-P Metsavainio it is possible
to tilt images of the moon to rectify regions near the
lunar limb which would be otherwise heavily distorted.
I describe the technique on my page: Tilting
the Moon |
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2004 November 09
Applying another idea by J-P Metsavainio I created some
3D Images of the moon.
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2004 March 03
The Moon |
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2004 March 29
Half Moon - A mosaic
of several images. |
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2004 February 24
Waxing Moon |
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2004 February 24
Earthshine |
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2003 November 9
Total Lunar Eclipse |
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2003 June 11
The Aristarchus region
- again! |
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2003 May 16
Total Lunar Eclipse |
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2002-02-25
My Clavius Saga continues...
New Processing Method using MoonStack |
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2001-11-03
The occultation of
Saturn by the moon. |
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Moonset |
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The Full Moon |
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The double Crater: Messier
& Messier A |
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An MPEG-1 (663 kB) video of Crater
Clavius. |
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Earthshine |
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The one day old moon |
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The Crater Copernicus |
My Lunar
Videography Setup |
Some
of the Images were produced with rather common equipment.
I use a Sony TR2200 Hi8 Camcorder. The camera is located
on a tripod and looks into a 20mm Kellner eyepiece like
a human observer would do. I digitize the images with a
SNAPPY frame-grabber.
The more recent images were mostly made with a Nikon Coolpix
950 digital camera. The camera is coupled to the telescope
via a Vixen digital camera adaptor. |
List
of Images |
- Aristarchus again (6"
Dob, Coolpix 4500)
- Aristarchus again (5.1"
Newtonian, Coolpix 950)
- The Crater Copernicus
- The two day old moon
- The one day old moon
- Earthshine
- Moonset
- The Craters Aristarchus and Herodotus with the Schröter
Valley
- Oceanus Procellarum
- Mare Humorum and Crater Gassendi
- The elongated Crater Schiller
and Crater Hainzel
- The Mare Humorum with Crater
Gassendi, Hainzel and Schiller
- clavius.html The crater Clavius
with the smaller crater Porter sitting on its edge.
- seeing.html A gif-"movie"
showing the effects of seeing.
- mosaik.html This is a mosaic
of several Video Images, it shows the Terminator of the
first quarter moon.
- mosaik2.html Another mosaic,
made about 5 days after new moon.
- hyginus.html The Rima Hyginus
is visible as a fine line running right through the small
crater Hyginus in the lower right.
- aristoteles_atlas.jpg
Mare Frigoris, from Atlas (upper left) to Aristoteles
(lower right)
- aristoteles_eudoxus.jpg
Aristoteles and Eudoxus, Vallis Alpes, flooded Crater
Meton (bottom)
- mare_nectaris.html
Mare Nectaris with Craters Theophilus, Maedler and Fracatorius
- hipparchus_delambre.jpg
Craters Hipparchus, Albategnius, Delambre and Abulfeda
- hipparchus.jpg Craters
Hipparchus and Albategnius
- maurolycus.jpg Craters
Maurolycus, Stoefler, Aliacensis
- vallis_rheita.html
The very old crater Janssen, Rheita Valley, Piccolomini,
Rosenberger
- montes_caucasus.jpg
Montes Caucasus
- stoefler_curtius.jpg
Craters Stoefler, Curtius
- theophilus_montes_altai.jpg
Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina, Montes Altai
- montes_pyrenaus.html
Montes Pyrenaeus, Messier double crater
- setup.html Images of my Lunar
Videography Setup
- moon.html The waxing gibbous
moon
- moond.html a detail of the
image before
- ecl1.html Total Lunar Eclipse
on 16 September 1997, partial phase
- ecl2.html Total Lunar Eclipse
on 16 September 1997, total phase
- ecl3.html Total Lunar Eclipse
on 16 September 1997, partial phase
- eclmovie.html A "movie"
ot the Total lunar eclipse on 16 September 1997
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