Derby and District Astronomical Society
The Moon - 3 days old
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Malcolm Neal took this image of the 3 day old crescent Moon on the 2nd January 2025. He used a hand-held Sony A7RV camera with 200-600mm lens, the Moon being below the level of a fence so that a tripod could not be used. Image Credit: Malcolm Neal. |
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This image of the 3 day old crescent Moon with Venus (at upper left), was taken on the 2nd January 2025 by Jim Sarsgard using a hand-held Google Pixel 6A phone. Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard. |
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The 3 day old crescent Moon is joined by Jupiter at top left, Saturn just left of centre, and Venus at ower right, in this image taken by Malcolm Neal on the evening of the 7th December 2021. An annotated version of the image is included below. Malcolm took the picture on his hand-held Sony A7 III camera with a 24 - 105 zoom at 24mm. He tweaked the image brightness slightly upwards. Image Credit: Malcolm Neal. |
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This time lapse image by Chris Newsome shows the moon setting from his back garden on the 29th March 2009. It is a stack of 87 one second frames taken on a Canon 400D camera at 200 ASA
with a 35mm lens. Chris also made a video of this moonset which can be downloaded here (1.3 MB WMV file). Image Credit: Chris Newsome.
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Barry Ashforth assembled the following mosaic of the Moon from seven images collected on the 10th February 2008. Image Credit: Barry Ashforth.
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The crescent moon with Venus above it were captured by Chris Newsome at 16:55 UT on the 4th December 2005. Chris used a Canon EOS300D camera, 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! Image Credit: Chris Newsome.
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Chris Newsome took the following close up of the 3.36 day old Moon on the 9th July 2005 from Basingstoke. Image Credit: Chris Newsome. |
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Chris Newsome took the following shot of the 3.5 day old Moon. Image Credit: Chris Newsome. |
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