3D Full Moon

  3D Full Moon
Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this satisfying stereo anaglyph of the Full Moon. A corresponding stereo image pair, intended for cross-eyed viewing, is also available through this link. Regardless of your preferred technique for stereo viewing, the 3D effect comes from combining pictures of the same scene taken at different angles — mimicking the slightly different perspective of each eye. Perhaps surprisingly for Earthdwellers, getting two pictures of the Full Moon from different angles only requires a little patience. In this case, photographer Laurent Laveder used pictures taken months apart, one in November 2006 and one in January 2007. He relied on the Moon’s continuous libration or wobble as it orbits to produce two shifted images of a Full Moon.

Moon-Venus conjunction

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May 23, 2007

The two brightest objects in the night sky appeared to go right past each other last week. On the night of May 19, Earth’s Moon and the planet Venus were visible in the same part of the sky, and at closest approach were less than one degree apart. The conjunction was captured in the above image taken from near Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Venus appears on the lower left of the above photo. The spires that appear to emanate from Venus are diffraction spikes caused by the camera itself. The image is so clear that craters on the Moon are resolved. Of course, the real physical distance between the two heavenly bodies was not unusually small — the apparent conjunction was really just an illusion of perspective. Although Earth’s Moon passes Venus once each month, such a close passing visible in the evening sky is more rare.

 

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Down to the Moon

Mike Reyfman

Sometimes the picture says it all.

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Photo: partial solar eclipse

Joerg Schoppmeyer,
Holiday Inn Resort Goa, India

On Monday, March 19, shortly before the equinox, locations in Asia and the Arctic were favoured by the New Moon’s shadow during a partial solar eclipse. Although the view from Goa, India found the eclipsed Sun near the horizon, photographer Schoppmeyer was still able to capture this lovely image, combining celestial with terrestrial silhouettes.

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