I refer the honourable reader to the post that I prepared some time ago - https://beardedgit.com/?p=436
Posts tagged 'Moon'
Every cloud has a silver lining
The Moon at its most glorious time - Lunar light on silver-lined clouds.
Words and pictures by Anna.
Summer Hols – Part 7 – Esbjerg and the journey home
Click on any of the pics to open up a bigger version in a lightbox thingy.
The next morning we packed away the gear for the last time, and prepped for the 40-mile drive across to Esbjerg to catch the ferry back to Harwich. We had plenty of time, so after finding the ferry terminal we drove northwards out of town to find a quiet spot for some lunch. We ended up sharing the beach with these characters:
We spent a few hours walking the strand-line, paddling and getting sand in our shoes:
Back at the car-park, Chris gave Anna her first driving-lesson. Luckily, I still had the keys in my pocket 🙂
While shopping for food, we found this place. Quite apt, I thought:
After boarding the ferry, it was time to go see the sights from the deck. There were seals on several of the sandbanks:
and we got a bit close to this Meccano monster:
There was to be a partial lunar eclipse visible on the port side that night, so I spent some time trying to get some pics of it, but it wasn't easy without the tripod. Here's a pic taken just after the eclipse started, there's a hint of penumbra at the lower-left:
The view from the starboard side featured gathering clouds against the fading light - a sure sign that we were England-bound:
And that was that. The next morning we docked at Harwich, got through Customs and made our way up to Norwich to visit some of Chris' (recently-extended) family for dinner and to catch up on the gossip.
Late in the evening, after the final car-journey of the holiday, we arrived home...
knackered.
Observing Report 17th-18th April 2008 Part 2 (More wobbly bits)
As promised, more from the latest session:
And the key:
Observing Report 17th-18th April 2008 Part 1 (Plenty of wobbly bits)
After a long run of cloudy nights a clear one was well overdue, and I was on standby, ready and waiting to get out there to try out the replacement Baader Hyperion 3.5mm eyepiece.
The skies southwards were clear, but the Moon in Virgo meant that there was a lot of glare down the scope OTA when viewing Saturn. That, coupled with the poor seeing (warm day, cold night etc. etc.) meant that imaging was always going to be a low-quality affair. Indeed, the conditions were too bad for viewing at 3.5mm (x285 mag), so I had to settle for 8mm (x125 mag) on the zoom, which is fast becoming my favourite eyepiece.
Anyway, I managed to get a fair batch of .avi files of Saturn and of parts of the Moon before condensation set in and covered the scope mirrors, terminating the observation session.
It'll take me a while to plough through the imaging data getting rid of the bad frames using VirtualDub, but for now here's a 30-second loop of the bottom edge of the Moon, as captured with the SPC900 webcam, to give you some idea of just how wobbly the view gets when the seeing is poor:
Just in case you were wondering what's what, here's the key:
If I get any half-decent images out of the mass of video data, I'll post them tomorrow.
