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These three images of the total lunar eclipse of August 28, 2007 were taken from Coopersburg, PA between 5:45 a.m. and 5:54 a.m. using a Canon D20 digital camera and a 200mm zoom lens. Exposures were one second at F/5.6, ASA 800. The increase in the background lighting was the result of a brightening dawn sky. In the last image the eclipse had reached totality, and moon was completely within the Earth's shadow. This was a very bright eclipse. All photos by Gary A. Becker... |
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Two eyes: Mars (left) and the star, Aldebaran, of Taurus the bull, can be seen above Orion the Hunter (three vertical belt stars) rising in the brightening morning sky on August 28. Unfolding nearly opposite to this scene was a lunar eclipse in the WSW. Moonlight peaking in an out of cumulus clouds illuminated the tombstones in the cemetery located just outside of Coopersburg, PA. This two minute image was recorded by Gary A. Becker using a Canon D20 digital camera, ASA 800. The zoom lens settings were 10mm at F/4.0. |
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Cherry Springs State Park in Potter County, PA is host to scores of interested amateurs on a typical clear summer weekend. Here a 30-inch Newtonian reflector is being assembled for an evening of clear sky viewing. Digital image by Gary A. Becker... |
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The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of PENNSYLVANIA? Potter County and specifically Cherry Springs State Park has been legislated as Pennsylvania's dark sky site for astronomy. I believe that it is the forest trees canopying ground illumination, and preventing light from straying skyward, that is the added bonus which helps maintain the darkness of this sparsely populated region. In the image below, the fall Milky Way is on the rise. Included in this photo are our two sister galaxies in the Local Group, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies. Ten minute Canon D20A images by Gary A. Becker on August 11/12, 2007, Carter Camp, PA... |
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