You need to upgrade your Flash Player The theme of this blog is not only and obviously space, but in particular “terrestrial worlds”, places that tend to have surfaces on which one could walk or at least attach oneself to. These places sometimes also have other earth-like familiar features such as atmospheres, weather, volcanos, geysers and perhaps, we are finding, even exotic oceans, rivers or lakes that are not necessarily made of familiar materials we are used to here at home. The second theme is imagery. Occasionally I do some retouching of images when needed if an image is incomplete or sometimes “dirty” or noisy. I will attempt to correct image shortcomings based upon other images or well-accepted presumed attributes. When this is done, notes will be offered as to what was added, why and sometimes how it was done. This way no one should ever wonder if something they are looking at is real or photoshop.
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Telescopic Views of Our Moon and Other Planets

Moon and Mars

I stumbled across an image of Mars and our moon a while back, either on Universe Today or just from looking for great images of Mars on google. Anyway, it never occured to me that you can get such great detail of Mars while still being able to see a limb of the Moon in the same view. I thought it was a Photoshop job until I looked up “occult+Saturn+moon” and found similar images. For some reason, Jupiter images are more a rarity. What is unmistakable is that the above Moon/Mars image by Ron Dantowitz is pretty incredible for its clarity and detail.

Moon and Jupiter

moon and Saturn

Moon and Saturn

I couldn’t find any of the moon and a tiny blue dot of Uranus, but you can always use your imagination.

U. Gordan just sent me one of Venus too

Moon and Venus in Daylight

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 11:55 pm and is filed under Jupiter, Luna (Moon), Mars, Saturn, Venus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Telescopic Views of Our Moon and Other Planets”

  1. Gordan Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 2:32 am

    How’s about this for Venus and the Moon: http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/image/0610/venusmoon_eder_big.jpg ?

  2. thomas Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am

    Added!… is that by Eder? i couldn’t locate a credit.

  3. Gordan Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 4:32 am

    Yes, I got it actually from APOD on Oct 30, 2006: http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ap061030.html

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