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Partial Lunar Eclipse 26 June 2010

26 June, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
Partial Lunar Eclipse 26 June 2010

Tonight there is (was) a partial lunar eclipse. I lugged my Celestron OmniXLT 150mm Newtonia reflector outside, and popped out intermittently with my wife’s camera (Fjuifilm Finepix Z20fd). All my astrophotography (such that it is) is done using an afocal technique – aka: holding the camera up to the eyepiece of the telescope. ...

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Moon and Mars (pic)

30 January, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
Moon and Mars (pic)

I’m awake, and cloud cover momentarily lightened, so I took a few shots of the Moon with Mars close by (and at or just past opposition: its closest approach to the Earth)…. At least it had damn well better be Mars; it was the only other thing in the sky I could see –...

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