A total lunar eclipse is currently taking place on April 15, 2014. It is the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the first of a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). Subsequent eclipses in the tetrad will occur on October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.
Telescope: Orion 80mm
Camera: Imaging Source IS-51MU
Mount: Equatorial fork mount Meade
Software: IC Capture
Frames: Gain 142 – Exposure 1/2500
Observatory SPONLI
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A total lunar eclipse is currently taking place on April 15, 2014. It is the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the first of a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). Subsequent eclipses in the tetrad will occur on October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.
The Moon is the only celestial body other than Earth on which humans have set foot. The Soviet Union’s Luna programme was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft in 1959; the United States’ NASA Apollo program achieved the only manned missions to date, beginning with the first manned lunar orbiting mission by Apollo 8 in 1968, and six manned lunar landings between 1969 and 1972, with the first being Apollo 11. These missions returned over 380 kg of lunar rocks, which have been used to develop a geological understanding of the Moon’s origins, the formation of its internal structure, and its subsequent history.
Equipment:
Meade LX200 16”
SBIG 8300m + filters baader
Exp.: 0.12
Crescent Moon: 99 % of visibility.
Observatory SPONLI
Waning Moon Online. Visibility 60%
November 24, 2013
Equipment:
Meade LX200 16”
SBIG 8300m + filters baader
Exp.: 0.12
Observatory SPONLI
Waning Moon
Visibility 95-97%
The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System.
Visible craters: Langree (Langrenus), Copernicus (Copernicus), Petavius (Petavius). And amazing lunar maria:
◊ Sea of Serenity (Latin Mare Serenitatis). The diameter is 700 km. Mare Serenitatis connects with Mare Tranquillitatis to the southeast and borders Mare Vaporum to the southwest. Mare Serenitatis is an example of a mascon, an anomalous gravitational region on the moon.
◊ Sea of Tranquility (Latin Mare Tranquillitatis). The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. This Mare has a slight bluish tint relative to the rest of the moon and stands out quite well when color is processed and extracted from multiple photographs. The color is likely due to higher metal content in the basaltic soil or rocks.
◊ Sea of Crises (Latin Mare Crisium). Mare Crisium is 555 km (345 mi) in diameter, and 176,000 km2 in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges toward its outer boundaries. Ghost craters (craters that have largely been buried under deposits of other material), are located to the south.
Equipment: Meade 16 + camera STT 8300
Editor: Photoshop
Date: 21/08/13
Exposure Time: 1 sec.
With SPONLI Space is getting closer!
Waxing Gibbous
Visibility 69%
Equipment: Meade 16 + camera STT 8300
Editor: Photoshop
Date: 16/08/13
exposition: 0.12
Two great Lunar Craters: Tycho and Copernicus
This is a great night to observe two of the greatest craters on the Moon, Tycho and Copernicus.
Tycho is towards the bottom of Moon in a densely cratered area called the Southern Lunar Highlands. It is a relatively young crater which is about 108 million years old. It is interesting in that it is thought to have been formed by the impact of one of the remnents of an asteroid that gave rise to the asteroid Baptistina.
Copernicus is about 800 million years old and lies in the eastern Oceanus Procellarum beyond the end of the Apennine Mountains. It is 93 km wide and nearly 4 km deep and is a clasic “terraced” crater. Both can be seen with binoculars.
Our first visitors have already taken sample images of the moon.
equipment: telescope MEADE 16” + SBIG STT 8300.
exposition: 0.12 sec.
visibility: 100 %.
The moon in Capricorn
