CCD IMAGES SECTION:
The Moon & Planets 
Updated 12/25/21

 

      
 This section is
      subdivided for clarity into several new groups. Imaging is done
      here with a variety of cameras and instruments. While my specialty
      is comet imaging, I have also spent many hours recording other
      solar system objects as well! Here is a list of the sections
      below:

      
- Full disk Lunar Images

      
- Prime focus Lunar and Panoramas

      
- High magnification close ups
      of Lunar features

      
- Lunar Eclipses and Conjunctions

      
- High magnification Planetary
      images

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Latest images here:

 
 
 
 
 

      
 
Thin Moon - 0.4%
4/23/20
 
 
 
 

      
 


      

6.2 % crescent moon
in the Daytime
12/15/17

      
 


      

Venus at Noon
3/10/17

      
 


      

Venus at 3% phase
3/17/17

      
 


      

Venus at 1% phase
3/24/17

      
 


      

One Percent cresent
moon in the daytime
5/26/17

Dawns Super Moon
Images
5/5/12

Moonrise over Colorado 
Plateau 2/12/06

Full Moon
Jan. 13, 2006

Full Moon Giant
Composite - 10D

Nearly Full Moon
With SV80s
12/3/06

9 part Lunar
Composite  1/6/07

 
60% moon with superb
4/5 seeing
6/13/16

 
Super Gibbous Moon
with strong Northern
Libration
12/28/17

Prime Focus Lunar and Lunar Panoramas
With 12.5" Newtonian

Atlas/Hercules 11/30/07	Sunrise on Hipparchus/Albategnius 11/28/07	Lunar Southern Cusp with Janssen 12/16/07	Rupes Altai Region 12/16/07	Sinus Asperttatis Region 12/16/07
Lacus Somniorum Region 12/16/07	Clavius & Tycho at Sunrise 12/30/07	Delandres region 1/1/08	Mare Vaporum Region 1/2/08	Montes Apennius Reg. 1/5/08
Vallis Alpes Region 1/6/08	Clavius/Tycho/Moretus 1/22/08	Clavius/Moretus 1/22/08	Copernicus Prime Focus 1/26/08	Coperincus Close up 1/26/08
Southern Highlands 3/15/08	Mare Imbrium/Copernicus 3/15/08	Imbrium/Frigoris 3/15/08

High Magnification Close Ups of Lunar Features -
With 12.5" Newtonian
DMK CCD Images - 1.5x/2x Televue Powermate Barlow

Atlas and Hercules 12/17/08	Moretus Crater 12/14/08	Schiller in shadow 12/4/08	Gassendi 3/26/08	Blancanus 3/22/08
Aristarchus 3/19/08	Mare Frigoris to Plato 3/15/08	Grimaldi to Kepler 3/1/08	Grimaldi 3/1/08	Wargentin 2/22/08
Bailly on south limb 1.8x 2/13/08	Bailly on south limb 2/13/08	Ptolemaeus and Davy Catina 1/12/08	Tycho 2/6/08	Imbrium Basin 2/3/08
Plato/Alpine Valley 2/3/08	Mare Nubium Hippaulus Rilles 1/30/08	Mare Nubium Hippaulus Rilles 1/30/08	Jura Mountains Sunrise 1/31/08	Archimedes/Montes Apenninus 1/20/08
Tycho/Manginus 1/13/08	Lunar Southern Montage 1/13/08	Alphonsus Trio 1/8/08	The Lunar South Pole at near maximum Libration 12/29/07	Janssen - A closer view 12/23/07

High Magnification Close Ups of Lunar Features -
With 10" f/3.8 Newtonian Astrograph
DMK CCD Images - 5x Televue Powermate Barlow
 

      

Seeing 3 - 4 best 
night in a year!
10/29/17

      

Clavius
Seeing 2 - 3 / 5
10" f/3.8 5x
7/13/16

      

Moretus
Seeing 2 - 3 / 5
10" f/3.8 5x
7/13/16

      

First Quarter
seeing 3/5 shoot out
6/30/17

      

Just Past first Quarter
seeing 2.5/5
7/2/217

      

Half moon, seeing was
2.5/5 but nice shadows!
11/26/17

      
 
Lunar Close ups on 
3/4 moon seeing 2
3/16/19
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

      
 


      
Bullialdus
Seeing 2 - 3 / 5
10" f/3.8 5x
7/13/16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


      

Moretus
Start of a extensive 
series of Lunar images
with the new 10" and
IR pass filter
6/13/16

      

Mare Frigoris / W. Bond
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Plato Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Plato Region 2
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Archimedes Region
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

 Eratosthenes Region
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

 Stadius to Shroter Region
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Parry to Davy Region
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Straight Wall Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Deslandres to Pitatus
10" f/3.8
6/13/16



      

Tycho area with labels
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Even sharper Tycho Region
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Clavius Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Clavius Region 2
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Straight Wall Region 2
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Ultra Thin Moon - One
day from New at Noon
10" f/3.8
7/2/16

      

Alphonsus Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Ptolemaeus Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      

Triesnecker Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16

      


      
Appenninus Region 1
10" f/3.8
6/13/16



      

Archimedes, Autolycus, 
Aristillus
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      


Julius Caesar 
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      

Theophillus, Cyrillus, 
Catharina
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      

Plato Region 2
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      

Exodoxus, Aristoteles
Alpine Valley and
Notes on Tone Mapping
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      

Langrenus in High Sun
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      

Atlas and Hercules 
in High Sun
10" f/3.8
7/13/16

      
 
First Attempt at UV-IR
Lunar differentiation mapping
10" f/3.8
7/15/16

      

Two dozen new images
with 10" f/3.8 of
Gibbous Moon
6/14/16

      

Several images of closeups
of Aristarchus and Gassendi
with the 10"   6/16/16



      

20 image set of closeups
on the terminator with
the 10 inch
6/25/16

      

Over a dozen images of
the thin lunar crescent
in broad daylight with
3/5 seeing
7/6/16

      

More Daytime Lunar shots
7/9/16
10" f/3.8

      

A dozen new lunar 
images with the 10" with
3/5 seeing
6/5/17

      
 

      
More lunar images
with the new 10"
3/26/16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lunar Eclipses and Conjunctions
(All types of instruments)

Moon and Mercury
in Morning sky
10/27/08

Moon/Mars Rise
12/23/07

Lunar Eclipse 
Oct. 17, 2005

Lunar Eclipse
May 15, 2003

Penumbral Eclipse
3/3/07

 Venus Jupiter super 
close conjunction
8/27/16

High Magnification Planetary Imaging
DMK Cameras from Imaging Source - All types of instruments:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

      
 


      

Daytime stars and planets
with the 10" at 2" aperture
11/24/17

      
 


      

Asteroid Schur
with 10 inch
10/21/17

      
 


      

Mercury Trasit in
Hydrogen Alpha from
Payson
11/16/19

      
 


      

Jupiter with the DBK
5/27/17

      
 

      
Mars and Venus in
Daytime with 10 inch
12/27/16

      

Comparisons with Jupiter
with the new Orion
Planetary filter set
1/16/16

Mars on March 10th
with new AR152

First Images with
the new DMK-USB
11/11/07

Uranus - A Challenging
planet to image!
10/14/07

Mars Plain Side
12/3/07

First Images with
the new DMK-USB
11/11/07

Venus in UV 
12/15/07

Mars at 15"
12/22/07

Saturn with 8"
5/15/10

Saturn nearly edge on
in visible and UV
3/28/09

Some first shots of
Jupiter with our new
DBK41 color camera
3/22/14

High Magnification Planetary Imaging
Phillips Vesta Cam - My very first planetary web cam:

Mars shots on October 30th	Mars 5/22/03	Mars with Vestacam 7/8/03	First Vesta Cam images of Saturn	Saturn Wide Open Dec 18, 01
Jupiter 12/08/01	Saturn on Nov 26th	Jupiter 12/22/01	Jupiter December 8, 2001	Saturn - November, 01
New Mars Deconvolutions	Jupiter and Ganymede 6/3/06	Saturn with Vesta Cam 3/30/07	Jupiter in UV, IR, Vis 6/19/07	Uranus - First Shot 10/17/07

Lunar and Planetary Imaging with other instruments:
Assorted cameras and equipment

First Lunar shots with
New AR152 
4/31/12

Blue Moon and 
Monsoon Cloud shots
9/2/12

Latest Lunar shots with
AR152 6/30/12

Moon / Planets
2/25/12

Test shots with the 
color DMK41 cam
from Payson
7/25/15

Lunar Images
DSLR/SBIG CCD/Vesta Cam

Colors on the Moon	Colors on the Moon II	The Hipparchus Region	High Resolution Lunar Images	Theophilus
Luna - May 1, 01