The Moon in Pleiadies by AstronomyMan
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On April 1 (seriously, no jokes) the moon passed in front of the Pleiadies Cluster. Here is a picture of this event.
I know only astronomy geeks love this kind of thing, but it is also kind of beautiful. It made the astronomer geeks telescopes stick up in the air anyway.
Taken with a webcam. Mosaic of 5 images, each image a stck of 800 images. The stars are exposed at 20 seconds each, the bright part of the moon exposed at 1/100 second, and the Earth Shine on the dark part of the moon exposed at 1 second.
Layering etc done in PSP9.
Enjoy....
Comments (8)
Katmando
I love this image, taken with a webcam? wow :)
jared99
Excellent work matching exposures. Your manipulation of the moon gives it a fantastic 3-d feel -- it definitely looks like a spherical orb floating among the stars...
TwoPynts
I was hoping you would post an image of this for my inner astronomy geek. ;} Amazingly well done!
babuci
I love images from a moon, part of our life like a sun. I suprise you made this pic with webcam...wow!
PeeWee05
I'm not astrology geek, but I do love this shot and edit.
jcv2
This is OUTSTANDING! Incredibly good work here! vote
WiserAngel
a webcam? What on earth kind of webcam do you have? The moon is so cool!!!
PaxSV
Amazing! I love it! PaxSV