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Large mosaic of late
cresent moon on 4/9/00 made from six raw images stitched together in Corel Photo-Paint
[1900x3254, 588K] |
Here's a collection of the best images I've obtained so far with my Olympus C-2020 Zoom
digital camera and Celestron CG-9.25 telescope.
For a more detailed description of my equipment and techniques, visit my Equipment page. My primary goal in this project is to provide a
comprehensive photographic coverage of the moon in many lunar phases, both waxing and
waning, at a consistent scale and resolution. This is a long-term project and, over
time, I plan to fill gaps in the lunar cycle and replace images with better ones of the
same phase and area. Another, secondary goal is to obtain images of selected lunar
features at higher resolution or in a way that highlights their uniqueness. These
are grouped under the heading Special Lunar Subjects.
All of the lunar images are monochrome and those under the lunar phase headings are all
1024x768 pixels with file sizes ranging from about 65K bytes to 170K bytes (the zoomed-in
shots have larger file sizes). The images under the other headings vary quite a bit
in pixel dimensions and file size. The lunar phase images taken on a given day are
organized generally from lunar north to south. I've tried to maintain proper
orientation of all images with regard to the lunar compass, with north up and west to the
left. In the captions for the lunar phase images, features are generally listed from
north to south and west to east starting with mares and other named plains, then mountain
ranges or ridges, then craters. I've also tried to stay with standard image
sizes. My solar images are nothing to write home about, but I thought I would
include what I had. As my friend Dale says, "solar filters are one of the big
disappointments in life." For the record, I have a Thousand Oaks Type 2+ full-aperture solar
filter, which is as good as any and better than some. I'm just getting started on
planetary photography, so I hope to have more images to display in the future.
I hope you enjoy viewing my images. Some of them make nice backgrounds for
Windows and you're welcome to use them as you see fit. However, they are my images,
so please don't use them commercially or disseminate them without my permission. Thank you
for your interest.
All images Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Greg
Konkel. All rights reserved.
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Waxing late crescent
moon on 4/9/00 |
Mare Frigoris, Lacus
Somniorum, craters Hercules and Atlas on 4/9/00 |
Serpentine ridge in Mare
Serenitatus, craters Hercules, Atlas, and Posidonius on 4/9/00 |
Ridge complex in Mare
Tranquillitatus, craters Theophilus and Cyrillus on 4/9/00 |
Mare Nectaris, Rupes
Altai, craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, and Piccolomini on 4/9/00 |
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Heavily cratered
southeastern region on 4/9/00 |
Eastern region, Mares
Crisium, Tranquillitatus, and Fecunditatis on 4/9/00 |
Mare Crisium, craters
Cleomedes and Macrobius on 5/7/00 |
Mare Fecunditatis,
craters Messier A, Messier, Gutenberg, and Columbo on 5/7/00 |
"Earthshine"
on 5/7/00 |
| First Quarter Moon
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Just past first quarter
moon on 4/11/00 |
Mare Serenitatus, Montes
Caucasus and Apenninus, craters Eudoxus, Casinni, Artistillus, Autolycus, and Archimedes
on 4/11/00 |
Heavily cratered
southcentral region, craters Ptolemaeus, Albategnius, Alphonsus, Arzachel, Purbach, and
Regiomontanus on 4/11/00 |
Heavily cratered
southern region, craters Walter, Orontius, Stofler, and Maginus on 4/11/00 |
| Waxing Gibbous Moon
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Waxing gibbous moon on
5/12/00 |
Mares Frigoris and
Imbrium, Montes Alpes, Caucasus, and Apenninus, Vallis Alpes, craters Plato, Aristillus,
Autolycus, and Archimedes on 5/12/00 |
Mare Imbrium, Montes
Caucasus and Apenninus, craters Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimedes, Timocharis, and
Eratosthenes on 5/12/00 |
Sinus Aestuum, Mare
Insularum, craters Eratosthenes, Copernicus, and Reinhold on 5/12/00 |
Mare Nubium, Rupes
Recta, Rupes Mercatur, and crater Bullialdus on 5/12/00 |
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Heavily cratered
southwestern region, craters Wilhelm, Tyco, Longomontanus, Clavius, Blancanus, and Moretus
on 5/12/00 |
Mares Frigoris and
Imbrium, Sinus Irirum, and crater Hershel on 5/14/00 |
Craters Copernicus and
Kepler showing ray systems on 5/14/00 |
Mares Nubium and
Humorum, Palus Epidemiarum, Lacus Excellentiae, and crater Gassendi on 5/14/00 |
Heavily cratered
southwestern region, craters Tyco and Schiller on 5/14/00 |
| Waning Gibbous Moon
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Waning gibbous moon on
11/14/00 |
Mare Frigoris, Lacus
Somniorum, Mare Serenitatus, craters Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Burg, Hercules, Atlas, and
Posidonius on 11/14/00 |
Mare Tranquillitatis on
11/14/00 |
Mare Nectaris, Rupes
Altai, craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, and Piccolomini on 11/14/00 |
Heavily cratered
southeastern region, craters Maurolycus, Pitiscus, Hommel, and Manzinus on 11/14/00 |
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Waning gibbous moon on
7/21/00 |
Mare Frigoris, Mare
Imbrium, craters Plato, Aristoteles, Eudoxus, and Casinni on 7/21/00 |
Rupes Altai and craters
Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina on 7/21/00 |
Heavily cratered
southeastern region, craters Maurolycus and Baracius on 7/21/00 |
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Mare Serenitatis, Montes
Haemus, Serpentine Ridge, craters Posidonius and Plinius on 11/15/00 |
Mare Tranquillitatis
with ridge complex, craters Plinius and Delamore on 11/15/00 |
Rupes Altai and craters
Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina on 11/15/00 (compare with image above) |
Heavily cratered
southeastern region, craters Stofler, Maurolycus, Baracius, Monterus, Curtius, and
Manzinus on 11/15/00 (compare with image above) |
| Last Quarter Moon
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Just before last quarter
moon on 8/21/00 |
Mare Frigoris, Mare
Serenitatis, Montes Alpes, Vallis Alpes, craters Goldschmidt, Barrow, W. Bond, Plato and
Cassini on 8/21/00 |
Montes Apenninus,
craters Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, and Manilius on 8/21/00 |
Sinus Aestuum, Mare
Vaporum, Sinus Medii, craters Eratosthenes and Manilius with many other degraded and
smaller ones, and Rima Hyginus on 8/21/00 |
Mare Nubium, craters
Hipparchus, Ptolemaeus, Albategnius, Alphonsus, and Arzachel on 8/21/00 |
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Heavily cratered
southern region, craters Aliacensis, Walter, Orontius, Stofler, Tycho, Maginus, and
Clavius on 8/21/00 |
| Special Lunar Subjects
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Overexposed image that
highlights the long shadows cast by Montes Alpes near the terminator, which exaggerate
their height, on 4/9/00 |
Craters Theophilus,
Cyrillus, and Catharina in waning gibbous phase on 11/15/00 |
Rupes Altai and crater
Catharina in waning gibbous phase on 11/15/00 |
Serpentine ridge in Mare
Serenitatus, craters Posidonius and Plinius in waxing cresent phase on 4/9/00 |
Serpentine ridge in Mare
Serenitatus, craters Posidonius and Plinius in waning gibbous phase on 11/15/00 |
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For more information on lunar
libration, including a time-series video demonstration, click here. |
The Apennine and
Caucasus Mountains with craters Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimedes, and Manilius
in waning phase on 8/21/00 |
Nicely composed, higher
magnification image of Mare Nectaris, craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina, and
Rupes Altai in waning phase on 11/14/00 |
Rupes Recta in Mare
Nubium on 5/12/00
Made by aliens? |
Lunar libration
comparing same area and phase on 7/21/00 and 11/15/00 (note position of reference craters
indicated by arrows) |
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Crater Copernicus on
5/2/01 (this is the highest resolution lunar image I've gotten with my setup) |
Montes Riphaeus on
5/2/01 ( a rather odd little mountain range in "the middle of nowhere") |
Rimae Hippalus on 5/2/01
(three parallel rills) |
Crater Clavius on 5/2/01 |
| The Sun
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Giant sunspot group on
9/23/00, visible to the naked eye and, at it's peak a couple of days earlier, covering an
area more than a dozen times larger than the surfact of the Earth |
Close-up of giant
sunspot group on 9/23/00 (note honeycomb structure) |
Large sunspot group near
limb showing Wilson effect on 5/12/00 |
Large sunspots near
center of disk on 5/12/00 |
| Deep Sky Objects
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The consumer digital
cameras currently available have some major limitations for taking the long exposures
necessary for capturing most DSOs. The maximum exposure for the Olympus C2020Z is
ISO 400 and 16 seconds; however, this image of the bright core of M42 demonstrates that
some decent images of a few of the brighest DSOs can be obtained. Also, star fields
and asterisms should produce good results since there are some 12th magnitude stars in
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The bright core of M42,
the Orion Nebula, on 9/23/00 showing the Trapezium with components E and F visible |
| The Planets
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Jupiter on 11/17/00 near
end of GRS transit
(23 raw image combined using AstroStack) |
Saturn on 11/15/00
(19 raw images combined using AstroStack) |
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Crescent Venus on
2/27/01 |
Comments and suggestions are appreciated gkonkel@nwgis.com
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