keadamander (@keadamander@pixelfed.social)

Shadows on the Moon MC 3M-5CA 500mmf8 @ APS-C = 800mm #photography #moonphotography #lunarcraters #crescentmoon #astrophotography #nightskybeauty #spaceobsessed #moongazing #lunarlandscape #telescopicview #nightskylover #moonwatchers #cosmicwonder #moonmagic #moonshots #skyperfection

Pixelfed
The region around #MontesApenninus including #Eratosthenes & #Archimedes at 16:59UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of 1,000 frames #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters #LunarMountains
The #EyesOfClavius #ClairObscurEffect at 16:58UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters
The #PtolemaeusTrio at 16:54UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters
Lighting Up the Moon's Permanently Shadowed Craters

There's abundant water ice in the Moon's permanently shadowed craters. Solar reflectors could beam sunlight into them.

Universe Today
#PastelDrawings of #LunarCraters near the terminator on 26th Feb 2024. When I was imaging them they were screaming "draw me" so last night I did! I used my photos as a reference. Black paper, #StabiloCarbOthello pastel pencils in white & black #AstronomySketching #LunarSketching #SpaceArt #AstronomyDrawing
#LunarCraters #Messala #Geminus #Cleomedes + #MareCrisium 22:55 UT 26th Feb 2024. The #Moon was 95% #WaningGibbousMoon 70mm refractor 3x Barlow + #ASI120MC camera
Very behind sharing images I've taken recently. This was taken on 26th Feb 2024 at 22:55UT of #LunarCraters #Langrenus #Vendelinus + #Petavius in #MareFecundatis under a 95% #WaningGibbousMoon 70mm refractor 3x Barlow + #ASI120MC camera

Science Magazine astronomy covers

Lunar impact (2016) - How this crater got its rings

Featuring a digital terrain model of the Orientale impact basin.
Credit: Ernest Wright, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

https://www.science.org/toc/science/354/6311

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