May 2 2006 - Daytime moon pics

The following are pictures that I took on May 2 2006. They were taken with my 80mm refractor, canon G3 digital camera and my maxview 40mm plossal. I never have much luck with daylight moon pics or venus pics but todays moon pic came out okey. It is very hard to get good contrasting details during the daylight because the bright blue sky washes out alot of the contrast. the following two pictures were taken during daylight hours. Please click on the images to enlarge them.




The next picture is of the moon taken a couple of hours later when it was fairly dark. I am quite happy with this result. The image is composed of 12 stacked images taken with the same equipment as the above pictures. Please click on the images to enlarge them.



The following image was taken just after the above picture. Yes they are not pretty but they are not meant to be. I intentionaly overexposed it (exposure of 2 seconds)to try and bring out the earthshine. This earthshine is light that bounces from the earth and lights up the night part of the moon. It is the same as a "moon lit" night and when the moon is a a thin crescent, you can esily see the earthshine. The image is composed of 3 stacked images. Please click on the images to enlarge.