Adam Marsh's Astronomy Pages

Adam Marsh’s Astronomy Pages

Photographs and Observations of Astronomical Objects

Latest Photos And Observations

Welcome to my web site.

I have built this page to display some of my latest astrophotos and observations. I will also feature some upcoming important astronomical events, especially focusing on Meteor Astronomy.

Enjoy the pics and info.

Total Lunar Eclipse, Cobram, Victoria - 28th August 2007.

Below are some of my images from the total lunar eclipse from the 28th of August 2007. Had a lot of fun taking these shots and they came up pretty well considering they are just through the camers’s zoom lens. The camera used is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 6mp camera. No digital Zoom used. Exposures and f settings varied, but, to reduce grain and noise, all pics were taken using an ASA setting of 80.

I had a little trouble with the cameras manual focus, but managed to work out that infinity is not quite infinity on the camera, but about 3 clicks back on the manual focus button.! The camera is fitted with a 12X zoom (equates to about 420mm telephoto). All shots were taken with this zoom level, the differing sizes of the pictures is just the way I have edited them and I didn’t have time to fix it.

Hope you enjoy the series of pics.

I have reduced my McNaught images to one photo, and replaced them with my Total Lunar Eclipse images. This photo I feel was the best one I took.

The photo was a 1 minute exposure with a 50mm lens set at f1.8 using an Olympus OM2s camera. The second was taken after the comet had set at about 23.30 AEST.