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| End of lunation and no sight of the sky! Better luck for next session. The photo? Ah, it's a rotifer - on the end of a cabomba leaf in my fish tank - if you can't go macro go micro ;-) Wonder if there are any on Mars or Jupiter's moons ... |
Lunation 1038 - 20th Nov to 19th Dec 2006
Added some photos from 2nd and 3rd Dec as well ...
19th Dec 2006 - end of session - and foggy!!!
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| End of lunation and no sight of the sky! Better luck for next session. The photo? Ah, it's a rotifer - on the end of a cabomba leaf in my fish tank - if you can't go macro go micro ;-) Wonder if there are any on Mars or Jupiter's moons ... |
14th Dec - 23 day moon
| Rain, cloud, rain ... so here's a bit of moon rock from
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| But ... For a really beautiful mosaic of the moon see Norbert's photo. That's the way to do it. folks! Thanks for posting, Norbert |
12th/13th Dec - 22 day moon
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| The brighter stars from Bootes and the Plough braved it through in the east around 2.30ut with Arcturus twinkling orange | Thin misty cloud over the south east cut out Saturn but the moon shone through after the rain earlier |
11th/12th Dec - 21 day moon
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| After midnight, with the Bresser (image flipped!) Saturn clear for a while to SE | Pink dawn again - eery cast to morning sky, more rain and winds forecast ... |
10th Dec - 19/20 day moon
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| Rain and cloud earlier - breaks in early hours of Sunday | View from the Bresser 70mm refractor |
8th Dec - 18 day moon in early evening/ after midnight/early 9th Dec - just day 19
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| Pink sky in the morning, skywatchers warning? Eastern sky at 8 am | After the cloud of the night, a brilliant moon at 8 am in the west - plus plane heading for Manchester Airport! |
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| Creeping over the rooftops as it rises from the trees ... | Still cloudy as it the moon rises higher | Brief clear spell after midnight ... | Craters to the south - Janssen clear |
5th and 6th Dec - 15 and 16 day moons
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| Just brief glimpses | in the cloud breaks ... |
Moon base plans from NASA- on BBC site 5th Dec 2006
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Story on BBC News
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Photos from NASA on BBC site More information on NASA moon plans Anyone else think they've highlighted Tycho?? |
3rd Dec - near full and clearer
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| 3 hand-held camera videos from the nearly full moon | Down from west to south (processed videos with Virtual Dub then Registax - details on Backyard Moon - part 1) | Viewing showed great detail in both Grimaldi and Bailly = videos not as clear ;-) |
2nd Dec - 12 day with clouds
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| A quick session, very unsteady, lot of cloud | Not good for photos ... |
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| Along the SW edge .. Schickard | ... down to craters above Bailly | ... and further south |
28th and 29th Nov first quarter and day 8
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26th Nov 2006 - low and in the murk - but viewable for brief moment before the clouds came ...
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| Low yet - but just managed to get the Tal on the 5 day moon at 16:45 UT | Libration hiding the far SE craters - may show more tomorrow. Cloud soon came over to fuzzy the view |
24th Nov 2006/25th Nov
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Cloud, rain, 3 day moon in the south???? Huh!! |
And more cloud for the low 4 day moon in the SW |
| But Saturn is rising earlier and earlier now ;-) | New photo of Saturn from Cassini on Jodrell Bank site |
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