The CBC is carrying a news story about the Thirty Meter Telescope, designed (in part by RASC member Craig Breckenridge) at Dynamic Structures in Coquitlam:
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I managed to get outside for a few minutes tonight to get a shot of the moon and Venus forming a close conjunction. Here is a photo!
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I was able to get a couple of photos of the moon through my Skywatcher 80mmED refractor a few nights ago. These are worlds better than the pics I took with my camera lenses, but they still lack a lot of the detail I was able to see visually. There were some rilles (long, winding canyons) in particular that were striking through the eyepiece, but which didn’t show up in the photos.
Feb. 2009 moon
And, for fun, here’s the same photo with the colour saturation artificially enhanced. I don’t know how representative of reality the hues are, but this is what came out of my camera:
Feb. 2009 moon, with 'enhancements'
Cameron
Hello astronomy buffs. I was out tonight and saw that there was a ring around the moon:
moon-ring
And since I was out there, I thought I would try a shot with my 300mm telephoto lens:
the moon
Not bad for a shot straight out of the camera!
Cameron
