Every day our eyes catch the light of our memories – time spent with family, the journey to work, a special holiday, a beautiful sunset or a dark starlit night. Each image captured is a picture drawn in light – a photograph: only to be lost in our minds or forever forgotten. Nearly two hundred years ago a small group of amateur scientists achieved what had eluded mankind for centuries – the ability to capture a permanent record of an image seen by their own eyes – a moment in time frozen onto a surface. They had discovered Photography. They were the ‘Catchers of the Light’.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

J Herschel crater


8'' LX90-DBK-PowerMate x2.5- Baader Ir-cut-Baader neodymium (moon-skyglow)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Mars

Mars 01/11/2008 21:41 UTC
Distance from Earth 0.65au
Illumination 98%
Angular diameter 14.4arcsec CM 27
8'' LX90 f/25
x2.5 PowerMate
Baader Ir-cut
DBK 21AF04
Kallithea
Athens
Hellas

http://www.buytelescopes.com/viewphoto.aspx?pid=16455