Mostly, Almost, Full-Moon

15 March 2022. The moon was photographed using an 8-inch S-C telescope with prime focus onto a full-frame SLR through a standard T-ring adapter and a Canon 2x Teleconverter. This is a composite of four images, more or less, one for each corner. The four corner images are each made from stacking frames and combining those frames in a way to minimize the effects of the atmospheric distortions.

Mostly, Almost, Full-Moon

15 March 2022. The moon was photographed using an 8-inch S-C telescope with prime focus onto a full-frame SLR through a standard T-ring adaptor and a Canon 2x Teleconverter. This is a composite of four images, more or less, one for each corner. The four corner images are each made from stacking frames and combining those frames in a way to minimize the effects of the atmospheric distortions.

Moon on 20 Dec. 2020

A stack of three images manually aligned and sharpened in photoshop. 5D-4 prime focus on an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope.

Moon & M48 Conjunction Recreation - May 10, 2019

On or around April 19 2020 I took about 45 minutes of of M48. I pre-processed the data with Pixinsight and stacked, but the resulting image didn't inspire me, so I set it aside. On May 29 it was clear and there was a nice 1/2 moon, so I captured a bunch of images and stacked 13 of them with Registax6. I used R6 for wave lets as well. I've made a few pictures like this moon already and this one wasn't as sharp as those other (seeing wasn't great). Then I got to thinking about maybe making a collage. I took the moon and M48 at different focal lengths (2000mm and 200mm, respectively) so the Moon was way more magnified. I scaled the moon to various sizes and shared a few with some friends for opinions. As I said, this isn't really photography any more - it's more like digital photographic collage. Anyway, one of the folks whom I shared with sent me a link to a conjunction that happened in May 10 2019. It looked a lot like this if you were in my backyard in suburban Chicago. So I set out to recreate what that event would have looked like provided we could magnify it a bit and see with 20+ stops of dynamic range. Needless to say this is an artist's impression of an astronomical event using photographs taken by the artist a year after the event. By happy circumstance the moon's phase was very much the same as what's pictured here.

Daytime Moon

Time of capture: around 20:00 CDT Date: 30 May 2020 Celestron CGEM2 mount. Edge HD8 (Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope) Canon 5D4 at prime focus. Best 23 of 50 frames stacked with Registax. Registax for wavelets. Zero Darks or Flats. Final post processing with Adobe PS.

Waxing Quarter

Celestron C8/Canon 5D-iv/Celestron CGE mount

Montes Apenninus with Copernicus Along the Terminator

Appennine Mountain Range, which features the site of Apollo XV landing. In the terminator shadow on the left is the large crater Copernicus. Five panel mosaic. Each panel shot comprised of a stack of the best 10 of 20 TIF files captured using a Celestron C8 Edge HD SCT atop a CGE mount using a ZWO ASI-290MC camera with 2x Celestron Barlow. Tracked, but unguided. Stacked & wavelet adjustment in Registax. Final editing in Photoshop CC.

May 27 2018 - Full Moon Conjunction with Jupiter

Look alllll the way on the left side to see Jupiter. This set to 1:1 scale or close to it.

Our Moon, Jupiter and Jupiter's Moons

Moon and Jupiter and three Jovian moons as seen on 11.28.12. Jupiter is located in the upper left corner; view original size for best results.

Waxing gibbous moon and Jupiter - see full size version for best results.

Setting Lunar Eclipse