Images of Earth's Moon

We have several different types of pictures for you to enjoy:

• captured from video
  • taken Feb 26, 1999.
  • taken Mar 25, 1999.

• Ektachrome 200 slide taken by student Dan Holland through the 10-inch Meade telescope with f/6.3 focal reducer, exposure time 1/125 sec, on Apr 26, 21:15 EDT, 1999.

• Pictures taken through the 16-inch telescope with a big Kodak digital camera
  • A set of pictures taken Apr 23, 1999, shown below
  • A set of pictures taken on May 15, 2000.
  • A mosaic from a set of images taken with the 16-inch telescope and a Kodak digital camera; thanks to Phil LaRock for putting it all together! This image is copyright (C) 2001 Kodak

• Pictures taken during the lunar eclipse of October 27, 2004.
  • Several pictures showing the Earth's shadow moving across the Moon

• A picture taken by NTID student Yesenia Ballesteros during her Astronomy Lab class on Sep 23, 2007. She simply pointed her camera into the eyepiece of our Meade Newtonian reflector.
  • Look here for Yesenia's picture.

• A mosaic made from eight photographs taken on August 26, 2009, using a Nikon D50 camera and the Celestron 14-inch telescope at cass focus. Exposure time was 1/160 second. The excellent Hugin program was used to stitch together the individual photographs.
  • Mid-sized version, 668x996 pixels. This is probably the best-looking version.
  • Full-sized version, 2673x3982 pixels. At full size, the noise and soft focus are apparent.

During a public observing night on Friday, April 23, 1999, Phil LaRock brought a Kodak DCS-620 digital camera to the RIT Observatory. We hooked it up to the 16-inch Autoscope and took pictures of the 7-day old moon. Below are a selection of the images: