Crescent Moon & Mercury – 7th July 2024

A super collection of images by members of a Waxing Crescent Moon and Mercury taken on the 7th July 2024. The Moon had an illumination of 3%, which is the percentage of the moon that is illuminated by the Sun and an age of 1.6 days old, which is how many days it has been since the last New Moon.

 

John Howarth - Bexley

 

 

Honor Wheeler - Dartford

Mercury is just above the 'M' on the label Mercury in the photo.

  

 

Jim Burchell - Dartford

 

Richard Bohner - Arizona, USA.

Image taken 6 hours after Honor and Jim's images in the UK.  Notice how the Moon position has changed relative to Mercury.

Noctilucent Cloud (NLC) sightings – July 2024

A lovely selection of NLC images taken by Society members on the 7th & 14th of July 2024.

 

7th July 2024

Honor Wheeler - Dartford.

A panoramic photo by Honor Wheeler comprising 5 individual images.

The bright star like object on the right hand side, middle is Jupiter, diagonally up, top and right is Mars and in-between at the top of the image you can just make out the Pleiades. Taken using a Canon Camera M6II on a tripod, ISO800, f/4.5, 1/2sec, 18-400mm lens set to 37mm. 02:18UTC

 

Jim Burchell - Dartford.

 

Bob Byrne - Dartford.

 

Sonia Rubie - Bexley.

Taken using an iPhone - point & shoot.

 

14th July 2024

Jim Burchell - Dartford.

 

Honor Wheeler - Dartford. 

This is 6 frame panoramic taken at 21:45UTC.
Taken using a Canon Camera M6II, Tamron 18-400mm lens, ISO800, f/4, 1/1sec. Each frame the lens was set to 27mm. Panoramic created in Bimostitch and processed in Snapseed.

 

Martin Crow - Burnham on Crouch, Essex.

Time Lapse video by Martin Crow

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Diane Clarke - Bexley. 
 
Taken @ 22.33 BST / 21.33 UTC.  Using a Canon m50 Mk2, 50mm prime lens @ f2.8, 1/3 sec ISO 1600.Jpeg from RAW

 

Sonia Rubie - Bexley.

Taken using an iPhone - point & shoot.

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