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More ISS, with Annotated Constellations

July 16, 2022 Paul 1402 Views 0 Comments DSLR, ISS

For this evening’s ISS photo session, I used nova.astrometry.net to map the surrounding constellations.

The Summer of tracking the ISS continued tonight, this time with a fly-through of The Big Dipper, and an extremely close encounter with Polaris.

The International Space Station made not one but two appearance on this warm, July Summer evening, both easily visible. One South and one North.

After a week of bad cloudy skies, today was clear, a wonderful opportunity to observe and photograph the very bright 75% illuminated Moon.

My prior article featured a wide sky view of the early Moon, one of two camera setups. This article’s Moon image is from the latter setup.

July 2, 2022 Paul 1371 Views 0 Comments DSLR, Moon

Welcome to July. Tonight’s sky observation presented a remarkably clear view of the 5% illuminated Moon about a half hour after Sunset.

I stayed up to 3 a.m. to see the Moon as well as planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. Mercury, starting to rise, was obstructed by trees.

Want to learn how to take stunning photographs of the Moon? This article is for you! Here is my step-by-step guide to image the Moon like I do.

I was fortunate these past nights to have nearly identical/ideal conditions for sky observation. Last night the Moon was at 9%; tonight was 15%.

Usually I attempt to center my Moon images, but tonight I felt it better to off center and magnify, to accentuate the limited surface area.