Archive for November 24th, 2008

Earthshine

Posted by anthony

I woke up this morning to a beautiful crescent moon. It was just climbing above the mountains to the east of my home. I decided I needed to snag a shot of this. Once outside, the amount of Earthshine became apparent. This was actually going to be a nice shot. I quickly put the Canon Rebel XTi onto an old beater of a tripod and quickly attached my 75-300mm zoom lens. To better frame the scene, I pulled back to 130mm providing the following view. Not too shabby, huh? Checkout this higher powered view taken via eyepiece projection to 48x through my Astrophysics Starfire 160 Refractor