The moon on Jan 24
Image of the moon tonight around 7pm MST at lunation 5.9 days.
Image from Louisville, CO at 6:45 pm MST. Celestron Nexstar 11 telescope, F6.3 focal reducer, and Canon Xti camera. Camera set at ISO 400 at 1/400 sec exposure. Sky was clear, turbulence very good 7/10, no wind, termperature 40°F.
Below is crop of above image at full scale around Mare Nectaris. Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina are prominent.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Keep ‘em coming, Vern. I never tire of these photos.
On another note, were you the one from Louisville, Colorado reporting crescentmoonwatch their earliest reported sighting of new crescent moon on the 19th?
peter
report found here
January 26th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Yup, that was me. It was the first time I’ve made a report to crescentmoon watch. Thanks for letting me know I was the first! Actually one the Boulder astronomy club members, Will, spotted about 5 minutes before me. I doubt I would have found had I not seen it in his scope first. I wanted to get an image but I didn’t have my scope locked down enough when I put the camera on and lost it. It disappeared behind the mountains a couple minutes later. Spotting an early crescent is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be.
January 27th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I’m enjoying the “sport”. That would have been cool if you got that photo. What age was the moon, or what time did you spot it? It may have been well below the 19h, closer to 18h.
We were clouded out here with Lady Liberty & ferry boats in the forground.
peter
January 27th, 2007 at 9:39 am
I saw it at 5:20 pm MST, which was 20 hrs 19 minutes past new (new moon was 9:01 pm MST, the previous night). Moon disappeared behind the mountains about 5:30.
Snowing here again today, thats 5 weekends in a row!