Tuesday 13 January 2009

The Moon

I have been sifting through images on my observatory laptop and found this lovely image of our closest neighbour.
A few facts

Object: Waning Gibbous 15.4 Day Old Moon
Distance: 231094 Miles
Date: 15th September 08
Equipment: William Optics Megrez 90 Canon EOS 40D Subframes: 1 x 1/8th Second
Notes: Magnitude -12.79. Pictured in the constellation if Pisces.

at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

California Nebula

  NGC1499 The California Nebula. Discovered in 1889 The California Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation of Perseus, currently v...

  • M45 The Pliedies
    Object: M45Type: Open Cluster Distance: 380Light Years (Approx) Constellation: Taurus Date : 27th October 08 Equipment: William Optics M...
  • M13 The Great Cluster
    Without doubt the finest of globular clusters visible in the northern hemisphere. Located outside the plane of our galaxy and some 25,000 li...