Astronomy

Astronomy Links

These images have been taken over a few years ago.

The ones displayed here were taken with a ToUCam mounted on a William Optics Megrez 80 f6 refractor.

The images are processed in Registax.

Sinus Iridium

Sinus Iridium

solar eclipse The shadow of the moon crosses the coast of mainland China on Wed 22nd July 2009 @ 02.00UTC. Image from MTSAT-1R [408 KB]

Processed with David Taylor's MSG DataManager and GeoSatSignal. Click on thumbnail for large image


Total Lunar Eclipse 3rd March 2007.

© Andrew Greenwood.

Movie assembled from still images taken with a Nikon D50 digital SLR attached to a 80mm refractor. Plays in Quicktime™.

Lunar Eclipse Movie [628Kb]


Annular Solar Eclipse 22nd September 2006.

Shadow crossing the South Atlantic. Meteosat-8 © EUMETSAT 2006

Animation of Annular Solar Eclipse (2.8MB)


Gene Cernan

A portrait of Gene Cernan, Mission Commander Apollo 17 and the 'last man on the Moon'.

Post EVA-3. Note the dirt on his suit and his three-day growth of beard.

Circuit braker panel 11 is behind him and the rendezvous window is above his head.

Olympus Mons

Olympus Mons in 3D.

I've taken a high resolution picture of the Martian surface and overlayed it on a MOLA Digital Elevation Model of the terrain.


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