Moon

We do not normally look at the moon....it does tend to get in the way of looking for Supernova! But We have recemtly (June 2011) added my old 8.75 inch F5.4 Telescope to the back of the 20 inch Telescope in the dome. It has a Sweex web cam fitted to it for taking Moon/Planet images if people want to.

First Mosaic is below. Made of 5 images. Developed in Registax, MaximDL and Paint Shop Pro.

A short video clip of the area around Plato is given below to show what the seeing conditions were like. Expand the clip to fill the screen. [|moon_10062011_010_short.wmv]



Image below is of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter on the 25th February 2012 taken from the patio with a Agfa instant still camera.