The Moon

This first picture of the Moon is a composite of a global one and smaller zooms. The whole Moon was taken on January 3rd 2004 when the Moon was 11 days old. I used a 800mm reflector telescope. The series of zooms were taken on Sunday December 11th 2005 with a Celestron 9.25 with eyepiece projection. I used a first 17mm eyepiece and then a 9mm eyepiece to have a little more magnification. You will notice that the shadows are not at the same place between the whole Moon and the zooms, and are not at the same place either between the different zoom pictures.

This is a mosaic of 27 single frames put next to each other to create this global zoomed view of the Moon. The picture was taken on 01/29/2007 with the Celestron 9.25 with eyepiece projection (9mm).

Total eclipse of the Moon, March 3rd 2007, seen from North Carolina on US 21, near the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Moon rose at 6:16pm exactly at sunset and nearly exactly at mid-eclipse, during totality.

The colors of the Moon. By shooting the Moon in high resolution and using the saturation tool in Photoshop, it is possible to enhance the colors of the surface of the Moon to show the different geological features of the satellite.

The phases of the Moon. During 28 days, the Moon grows from the New Moon to the Full Moon and back to a New Moon, each days a bigger or smaller proportion of the surface is lit by the Sun.

Total eclipse of the Moon, February 20th 2008, seen from Charlotte North Carolina. Totality was from 10:00pm EST to 10:52pm EST.

Pictures of the Moon, taken from the backyard in Charlotte. Those are high resolution pictures obtained by averaging from 10 to 16 images, taken at a very short exposure to freeze the seeing.