To see one of these pictures larger, just click the picture.
This picture was made with the help of the Zeiss telescope of Observatory
Simon Stevin
in Hoeven, the Netherlands. I've put my camera in the focus of the telescope and experimented with different exposure times. This was a photo of the first serie photo's I've made through a telescope, and this photo is good. It was also printed in a dutch astronomical magazine,
Zenit.
I'm very proud of that.
If you look in the left corner below, you can see the crater
Tycho. For more explanation about the moon I recommend the homepage of a friend of mine, who has made a clickable
moonmap,
on which you can finf the names of different places on the moon by just clicking on it.
Next pictures I've made through my own telescope. The optics of this Newtontelescope isn't very well. The problem I have at the moment is that I can't secure my camera, I have to hold it in my hand and put it in the focus of the mirror. That's why some parts aren't very sharp, I hadn't focused on them. Also, my scanner isn't very sharp, so when I want to zoom-in, I won't see very much details. But within a couple of months, I'll have the foto's zoomed-in (the photo's themselves are sharp).
For more information about the fases of the moon, click here.
Somewhere else on this homepage I've said something about projecting an image with the help of an ocular. Next pictures are made with this type of projecting. The camera was held behind the ocular. Because the image is enlarged, less light will fall on the film. Because of this the film has to be exposed a longer time. The pictures are a sort of test whether photos making this way is possible (for me). At first sight is seems alright, but the photos in original size are very unsharp. To make the photos look sharp, they are zoomed-out.
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