Astrophoto's - Moon

April 18, 2005 - This photo was taken with my Canon EOS 10-D camera at the prime focus of the Meade 12" LX200GPS along with the Meade f/6.3 focal reducer. Exposure is at 1/60 second at ISO 100. Photo processed for contrast and enhanced sharpness with Adobe Photoshop Essentials. This is the highest quality picture I have taken of the Moon!

December 17, 2004 - This photo was taken with my Canon EOS 10-D camera at the prime focusof the Meade 12" LX200GPS along with the Meade f/6.3 focal reducer. Exposure is at 1/100 second at ISO 100. Photo processed for contrast and enhanced sharpness with Microsoft Photo Editor.

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
October 27, 2004
Meade 12", Minolta Dimage 7Hi afocal with 40mm
ScopeTronix MaxView II eyepiece

February 28, 2004 - This photo shows the region of crater Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus. The mountainous ridge toward the bottom of the picture is the Apennines. The flat terrain above this ridge is Mare Imbrium. February 28, 2004 - The ridge at the top of this picture is The mountainous Apennines. Mare Vaporum. Notice the cleft at the bottom right corner of this picture. This is the Hyginus Cleft.

February 28, 2004 - This is the region of Mare Foecunditatis. Notice the comet-like ray features emanating from the twin craters Messier & W. H. Pickering. February 28, 2004 - The ridge at the upper left is the Alpine Valley which is roughly 83 miles long and 3 to six miles wide.while the large craters at the top right are 50 mile wide Aristotle and 35 mile wide Eudoxus. Below them to the left are the Caucasus Mountains.

February 28, 2004 - This picture shows the Hyginus Cleft in the center. Just to give you an idea of size, the crater just below center and to the left of Hyginus Cleft is 14 mile wide Triesnecker. The tiniest craters visible on these photographs are about a mile wide. February 28, 2004 - The large craters in the center of this picture are from top to bottom: Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel. Also notice at bottom left. This is the Straight Wall. It is a formation about 60 miles long and 800 foot high steep cliff.

Since the moon is so large and using the Dimage7Hi digital camera and using the afocal lens projection method of astrophotography, I needed to obtain an adapter and a special eyepiece to capture the whole image of the moon into a single frame. After searching around on the internet a bit, I found this website called www.scopetronix.com. Here, they even have a search engine in which you fill in the information regarding the type of telescope-camera system you have, and it gives you the exact lens/adapter combinations you can purchase to achieve your results.

I ended up using an adapter and the ScopeTronix MaxView II eyepiece that attaches directly to my Minolta DiMage 7Hi camera. The picture above is a 1/500 second exposure. The final image was processed furthur with Microsoft Photo Editor for contrast and sharpness. The image of the moon below was taken under poor atmospheric conditions.

Moon - January 14, 2005

Canon EOS 10D
ISO 100
1/60 second
12" Meade at f/6.3 (used focal reducer)


February 28, 2004 - This photo shows the region of crater Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus. The mountainous ridge toward the bottom of the picture is the Apennines. The flat terrain above this ridge is Mare Imbrium.	February 28, 2004 - The ridge at the top of this picture is The mountainous Apennines. Mare Vaporum. Notice the cleft at the bottom right corner of this picture. This is the Hyginus Cleft.

February 28, 2004 - This is the region of Mare Foecunditatis. Notice the comet-like ray features emanating from the twin craters Messier & W. H. Pickering.	February 28, 2004 - The ridge at the upper left is the Alpine Valley which is roughly 83 miles long and 3 to six miles wide.while the large craters at the top right are 50 mile wide Aristotle and 35 mile wide Eudoxus. Below them to the left are the Caucasus Mountains.

February 28, 2004 - This picture shows the Hyginus Cleft in the center. Just to give you an idea of size, the crater just below center and to the left of Hyginus Cleft is 14 mile wide Triesnecker. The tiniest craters visible on these photographs are about a mile wide.	February 28, 2004 - The large craters in the center of this picture are from top to bottom: Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel. Also notice at bottom left. This is the Straight Wall. It is a formation about 60 miles long and 800 foot high steep cliff.