Friday, October 10, 2014
Readers Images of the Total Lunar Eclipse of 8 October 2014
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| Just before totality with Canon 70D and 200 mm lens. (c) Chris Wyatt | Peak of totality Canon 70D attached to 10" Dobsonian scope with approx 30 times magnification using 42 mm eyepiece projection. (c) Chris Wyatt | After totality with same details as 2nd photo |
Chris Wyatt sends these great images of the Lunar eclipse from Wednesday, I love the colours he has captured.
Cynthia Ma in Sydney was not as lucky, and only managed a few glimpses of totality between the clouds. Remember images are copyright to their owners, so please ask if you want to use them.
Labels: astrophotography, Chris Wyatt, Cynthia Ma, eclipse, Moon
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Reader Pictures - Comet PanSTARRS
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| Image of Comet PanSTARRS from March 3 by Chris Wyatt (click to embiggen). Remember, these images are copyright to Chirs and Cynthia, so ask permission if you want to use them. | Image of Comet PanSTARRS from Sydney on March 5 by Cynthia Ma (click to embiggen). |
Here's some great images of C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS from readers Chris Wyatt and Cynthia Ma. Chris's image is taken on his Canon S2 IS at about 9pm set at 400 ASA, 3.2 secs at F3.5 with about 6 times magnification. The tail detail is nice. Cynthia's is her first shot of this comet, and has a nice composition.
Labels: astrophotography, Chris Wyatt, comet, Cynthia Ma
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Still More Solar Eclipse Images (Port Douglas Edition)
My Blog friend and correspondent Cynthia Ma was at Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas for the Total Eclipse. The clouds played hide and seek with the Sun, just as it did for me, but the clouds parted enough for her to get some great shots, including one of the corona.
For these shots Cynthia used a Panasonic Lumix DC with Baader solar film. Terrific results with a really simple setup.
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For these shots Cynthia used a Panasonic Lumix DC with Baader solar film. Terrific results with a really simple setup.
Labels: Cynthia Ma, eclipse, solar, Sun
Friday, June 08, 2012
Other Peoples Transit of Venus Images and Videos
I'm still processing my images, so I thought I'd put up links to fantastic images that people have sent me or pointed me to. Cynthia Ma's image to the left is great.
Comet Al has a brilliant series of images and a great animation taken using a simple projection system.
Rob Kaufmann has a wonderful shot from Bright Victoria, he had less luck with second contact due to turbulence as this video shows. Chris Wyatt has a great video of second contact from Burren Junction, NSW. Chris of SiriusCybernetics has some great shots. Hristo Pavlov got some nice images from Sydney despite the weather. Adam Marsh has a nice series of photos. Roland Gesthuizen has a great Storify essay.
In the international section a good video from Taiwan. The transit of Venus with a seagull http://flic.kr/p/bUB2bF and with a plane http://flic.kr/p/bUBcP8. A cloudy one from Dorset by Stuart http://flic.kr/p/cbY8bb and of course a huge Flickr gallery http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/transitofvenus/
The Bad Astronomer has a great Transit gallery too.
UPDATE: I forgot Andrew Thomas' stunning images at his blog, Dennis Persyk's transit images and astronomy boy's transit images. Sorry folks!
Labels: astrophotography, Cynthia Ma, transit, Venus
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Readers Images of the June 2011 Eclipse
Click images to embiggen. Copyright (2011) is vested in the original photographers, so please don't use them without permission.
 | Brendan O'Brien sends us a composite of eclipse pictures taken by his 12 year old daughter using her Mum's DSLR. Very impressive, we have a budding astrophotographer here. |
 | Reader Julia sent this lovely image of the nearly fully eclipsed Moon taken at 4:30 am local time. |
 | Reader Cynthia Ma in Sydney managed to get this image of the eclipsed Moon through breaks in the cloud. |
 | This is the only image of the eclipse Tony Travaglia of Omaru, NZ salvaged from his Camera card. The Eclipsed Moon glowing through the trees is wonderful though. Tony has just acquired a Coranado Halpha scope, so I'm looking forward to him sharing images of the Sun from that. |
Labels: astrophotography, Cynthia Ma, eclipse, Moon, readers pictures, Tony Travaglia
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
More Images from the December 21st Lunar Eclipse
Correspondent and friend Cyntia Ma sent in this photo of last nights Lunar eclipse. The photo was taken in Hornsby NSW, with a Panasonic DMC-TZ10.She says "you can see Mare Imbrium where Apollo 15 was landed in 1971. They flew all the way to the MOON using 60's technology with an onboard computer less powerful than my phone and half the time my phone doesn't work!"
Other Australian photos can be seen at this IceInSpace Thread. Spaceweather has a great gallery of eclipse images. Mike Hankey got some good shots, and there is an Astronomy Picture of the Day gallery with great images. As well, the Bad Astronomer has a great video.
Labels: astrophotography, Cynthia Ma, eclipse, Moon
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Further Update on Cosmic Chocolate
You may, or may not, remember this article about an edible version of the solar system available in Japan, or its follow up.Correspondent Cynthia Ma promised that next time she was in Osaka she would look up the hotel that was selling these delights, and try them out.
We she did. She reports that she did munch the whole solar system! And she is delighted to report that the yummiest of all is the Earth (lychee liqueur)!
Labels: Cynthia Ma, miscelaneous
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Remember that Lunar eclipse
Remember the Partial Lunar Eclipse of August 17? Well, reader Cynthia Ma has sent in some images of her experience. I particularly like this one. The photo was taken were taken in Hornsby NSW with a "mere DC Casio Exili" as Cynthia says.Pretty good I think!
Labels: astrophotography, Cynthia Ma, eclipse
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