A great capture of a very young Moon at 33.5 hours old on the 31st May 2022. Photo taken by member John Howarth from North Kent.
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Moon – 10th June 2022
A superb composite image of 8 frames showing a Waxing Gibbous Moon (79%) taken on the 10th June 2022 by member Neil Webster. Acquired using a ZWO ASI 290MM + R/IR filter.
1st sightings of NLC by member’s Jim Burchell & Diane Clarke
Whilst up early to photograph Venus and the crescent Moon on the 26th June 2022 at Dartford top road, member Jim Burchell also saw some Noctilucent Cloud too around 3am! The 1st Noctilucent Cloud (NLC) sighting for CMHASD NLC season 2022.
Jim sent out an alert via Whatsapp to members which Diane Clarke picked up and so too managed to photograph the NLC that morning from North Kent.
NLC by Jim Burchell - 26th June 2022
NLC by Diane Clarke - 26th June 2022
Venus & Crescent Moon by Jim Burchell
Two image's of Venus in the morning sky both taken from Dartford top road by Jim Burchell on the 22nd and 26th June 2022.
Venus in the dawn Sky 22nd June 2022 taken with a Pentax KP. F9.0 1/2s 60 mm iso 200.
Venus and the Crescent Moon taken in the early hours of 26th June 2022 with a Pentax KP. F7.1 1" 1/2 sec 88 mm iso 200.
Crepuscular Rays by Jim Burchell
An absolute stunning image taken by Jim Burchell just before he went to bed on the 25th June 2022 of Crepuscular Rays.
Image taken with an Olympus E-M10. F4.5 1/80sec 14mm iso 200.
Super Strawberry Moon – by Jim Burchell on the 14th June 2022
June’s Full Moon is also known as the Strawberry Moon after the wild strawberries that start to ripen during early summer. On Tuesday evening 14/06/22 member Jim Burchell took these lovely photos of the Strawberry Moon rising from Dartford top road. The Full/Strawberry Moon was near its closest approach to Earth on that day too, so making it a Supermoon as well. Therefore this Full Moon was a Super Strawberry Moon!
Image 1 Moon just appearing above the horizon.
135mm F9.00 5 sec iso 200
Image 2 Moon halfway above the horizon this image has been under exposed to bring out more detail and colour.
135 mm F9.0 1.5 sec iso 200
Image 3 Moon above the horizon image under exposed.
135mm F7.1 1/30 sec iso 400.
Come and see us at Dartford’s Big Day Out! – 16th July 2022
We will be exhibiting at Dartford's Big Day Out; a free event taking place in Central Park on Saturday July 16th celebrating the 'Best of British' from 11am to 6pm. Come and see us, have a chat & hopefully do some solar observing.
For more information about the event click here.
Lunar Eclipse – 16th May 2022 by Jim Burchell & Honor Wheeler
On the 16th May 2022 the Moon passed through the Earth's shadow between 03:28 and 06:55 BST, creating a total lunar eclipse.
It was difficult to see from North Kent. Firstly the Moon set partway through the eclipse and secondly the Moon was only 5° above the horizon when the eclipse started but this did not deter members Honor Wheeler and Jim Burchell; who got up early to photograph the event from Dartford.
Unfortunately it was rather cloudy and misty that morning too.
The first image below was taken by Jim Burchell and shows the Moon in partial eclipse. Jim used a Nikon D5100 set at F6.0, 1/2 sec and iso 640 attached to an Altair Astro refractor to acquire the image.
The next set of images below were all taken by Honor Wheeler from the same location as Jim.
The last image before the Lunar Eclipse was obscured completely by cloud.
Early Morning Planets
Members Jim Burchell, Diane Clarke and Richard Bohner were up very early on the 29th May 2022 to do a bit of planet spotting.
Jim captured the Mars & Jupiter conjunction from Dartford at 3.30am and a little bit later Saturn with Mars & Jupiter.
Mars & Jupiter
Mars, Jupiter & Saturn
Meanwhile Diane Clarke captured Jupiter & Mars and then Venus from Belvedere at 4am.
Jupiter & Mars
Venus above a cloud bank
Then 8 hours later in Arizona member Richard Bohner captured Mars & Jupiter (with Moons) too in the early morning sky. Richard said 'It was very windy this morning and was having camera shake in some of my photos. These are 3 second images at ISO 2500.'
Mars & Jupiter from Arizona.
Richard Bohner – Milky Way – Arizona
Member Richard Bohner took the opportunity to photograph the Milky Way from his back garden on the 26th May 2022 and these are the results.......stunning!
Richard said 'Was outside last night taking a few photos. a perfect night. It was 22C, wind - calm, no moon , "seeing" was very good and steady. These photos were taken with Canon 6D with Canon wide angle telephoto set at 24mm and 16 mm, f2.8. ISO 4000, exp time 20 seconds. Single frame.'
These images were taken at 01:30 AM, AZ time. Scorpius is just above pine tree top and the Tea Pot just above roof line to left of galaxy.
