Recent observations
Lunar eclipse
Many observed the total eclipse of the Moon on 2007-03-03. The picture
on the
front page
was taken by Martin Allan, using approximately 5 s exposure.
Old and young Moon
Horst Meyerdierks was hoping to take a picture of the Moon on the morning
of 2007-04-16, just over a day before New Moon. The season - early autumn
- was ideal, as was the latitude only 1° from the tropic of Capricorn.
However, he was clouded out on Cerro Paranal. The picture shows the lunar
crescent and earth shine one day earlier, taken with a stationary
f = 800 mm f/12.6 lens and 2 s exposure.
Frank Howie used the favourable conditions - early spring - to picture
the young Moon on the evening of 2007-04-18, from less exotic
Morningside. He used a tracking D = 200 mm f/10
Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.
