Sunday, April 22, 2007

Theophilus


For the last couple of weeks, any attempt at a good night's observing were thwarted by excessve humidity, hight cloud or overcast skies and I have missed the opportunity offered by the April new moon period to observe the Virgo cluster of galaxies in the evening. Tonight wasn't too bad, at least I could photograph the crescent moon, view Venus now showing a very obvious gibbous phase and have a look at Saturn. I didn't push the magnification but I could still see Titan to the East and Rhea to the West. The photo above was taken tonight at 19:00 UTC. The crater Theophilus is in the centre exactly on the terminator. At the time I viewed it, the sun was just catching the top of the central peak; a magnificent sight.

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Blogger mark_smith said...

Great photo cloudy here at the moment and no sign of getting clear. Looking at the Friday forecast the day seems nice with no clouds at night :) Fingers crossed.

Mark

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