Derby and District Astronomical Society

The Moon - 3 days old

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Barry Ashforth assembled the following mosaic of the Moon from seven images collected on the 10th February 2008. You will have to scroll to see the whole mosaic.



The crescent moon with Venus above it were captured by Chris Newsome at 16:55 UT on the 4th December 2005. Chris use a Canon EOS300D, with a 200mm lens at f/5.6, and manual focus. Exposure was 1/100th second at 3200ASA. Chris had a window of about 5 minutes when he could see both the Moon and Venus between houses!




Chris Newsome took the following close up of the 3.36 day old Moon on the 9th July 2005 from Basingstoke.




Chris Newsome took the following shot of the 3.5 day old Moon.

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