Total lunar eclipse November 8, 2003 Taken through Astro-Physics 5" Apo refractor at f/6 with MaxView 40mm eyepiece projection into a Sony DSC-V1 5 megapixel digital camera, mounted afocally. Lens zoomed to 3.8x to fill frame with Moon. Exposure aboout 4s to 6s at f/4 lens setting and ISO 100 speed.
Line of 4 planets in the western sky in May 2002: Venus is bright object, Mars is upper left, and Saturn below Venus, with Mercury lower and to the right. Shot with 105mm lens for close up.
Total Eclipse of the Sun, December 4, 2002 as seen from Ceduna, South Australia on the foreshore in town. Taken near start of totality. Notice conical moonshadow converging toward centre horizon leaving lighter areas of sky on either side where totality is not happening. Eclipse occured near sunset at end of path, so shadow is narrow. 50mm lens at f/4 at 1/8 second exposure with Fujichrome 100F slide film
