The Moon - The Virtual Telescope - Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory


	The Moon Click on the image above for the highest resolution The Moon is the only known natural satellite of our planet. With its distance of less than 400.000 km from the Earth, it is also the first step when climbing the cosmic ladder and leaving for a space journey. It is a obvious presence in the night sky, but still an amazing view everytime you look at it. This image was captured with the Planewave 17" unit, part of the Virtual Telescope Project. It comes from a single shot, taken through a Baader Planetarium H-Alpha filter (7nm) to "kill" the otherwise too high luminosity. The OTA in installed on a Paramount ME mount, by Software Bisque. The CCD camera is a SBIG STL-6303E. The image scale is of 0.63"/pixel.

The Moon

Click on the image above for the highest resolution

The Moon is the only known natural satellite of our planet. With its distance of less than 400.000 km from the Earth, it is also the first step when climbing the cosmic ladder and leaving for a space journey. It is a obvious presence in the night sky, but still an amazing view everytime you look at it.

This image was captured with the Planewave 17" unit, part of the Virtual Telescope Project. It comes from a single shot, taken through a Baader Planetarium H-Alpha filter (7nm) to "kill" the otherwise too high luminosity. The OTA in installed on a Paramount ME mount, by Software Bisque. The CCD camera is a SBIG STL-6303E. The image scale is of 0.63"/pixel.