Astronomy Journals
  • Journal
  • Photos
  • About
  • Journal
  • Photos
  • About

December 11, 2019

12/11/2019

1 Comment

 
Picture

A glorious full Moon tonight, in bitterly cold weather. While it was -1° C outside with a windchill of -4, it certainly felt a lot chillier on our observation deck. The TV 85 cooled down mercifully fast - even faster than my fingers - and I was able to observe some interesting details on an almost blindingly bright Moon before I started to worry about frostbite. 

Over the past year, I steadily replaced my Celestron and Explore Scientific eyepieces with TeleVue equivalents, and some nights I really notice the difference. This was one of them. The eyepieces are just so crisp and clear; so easy on the eye. Of all the astronomy equipment I've purchased, my favorite might just be the TeleVue 3-6mm zoom eyepiece. It really gives up nothing but field of view to much more expensive, fixed-magnification eyepieces, with the possible exception of my Ethos. 
Picture
This setup weighs less than 20 pounds and packs up in just a few minutes. That sure helps when the weather gets cold.

To me, there's always something a little miraculous about seeing the full Moon through a telescope, especially after you've become acquainted with its partly illuminated surface. Owing to shattered glass forged in the fires of cosmic bombardment, many features on the Moon reflect light directly back to its source, rather than off to the side. Much that is usually invisible on the lunar surface therefore pops into view when the Moon is full, including the glorious ray systems around some of the Moon's biggest craters. It's partly why it took "Selenographers" more than two centuries after the invention of the telescope to draft a passably accurate map of the Moon.

Luckily - or perhaps not - we now have cameras. My iPhone never quite captures what I see, but it's always nice to share something after a night outside. 
1 Comment
olhão in the man link
7/10/2023 07:13:17 pm

Thankk you

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    September 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    November 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    December 2018
    May 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016

    Categories

    All
    APM 140
    AR 102
    AT72EDII
    Binary Stars
    Binoculars
    C6
    C8
    C90
    Canon 12x36 IS Binoculars
    Comet
    Dark Sky
    Edge HD 800
    Emission Nebula
    EVScope
    EVScope 2
    FC 100DC
    FC 100DZ
    First Light
    FS 60Q
    Galaxies
    Globular Clusters
    Jupiter
    Major Observatories
    Mars
    Meteors
    Mewlon 180
    Mewlon 210
    Moon
    Naked Eye
    Omni XLT
    Open Clusters
    Planetary Nebula
    Ranking
    Saturn
    Skywatcher 100ED
    Spacecraft
    Stars
    Supernova
    TEC 140
    Travel
    TSA 120
    TV 85
    Uranus
    Venus
    Vespera II
    Vixen ED115S
    Zenithstar 81

    Picture

    RSS Feed