We had a wonderful view of the crescent Moon and Venus appearing together in the western sky this evening. The photo doesn’t really do it justice, but you can even see a bit of earthshine on the Moon.

As I wrote earlier over on Google+, this is all what we saw of the solar eclipse earlier today thanks to a fog that has been hiding the skies since yesterday. What we noticed was, though, that it got noticeably darker for a short time of about a quarter of an hour – but we just couldn’t see anything except a grey sky. It’s just as well that I hadn’t invested in any eclipse glasses or solar filters because, frankly, I was very doubtful of the weather report that said we wold have clear skies this morning.

Another Moon attempt with the multiple exposure method – this one was tone-mapped from three exposures, each stacked from about 20 images. I went a bit easier on the processing here, but it is still noticeable that brighness and contrast have a somewhat increased dynamic.

Yesterday’s full Moon in a bit of an experiment – this is an exposure fusion of two stacked images, one brighter than the other. I’ve never tried it this way and it’s a little noisy and somewhat lacks detail, but the overall contrast and brightness are much better.

The Moon from March 3rd, the last one we’ve seen until today due to the lousy weather. I was still able to coax some details out of this, but it gets more difficult without crater shadows!

We were clouded out on March 1, but here’s the Moon from two days ago. It gets more difficult to get details the fuller the Moon gets, but this stack from about 20 images worked quite well.

One final February Moon from the 28th, the night edition.

The last February Moon from the 28th, in a pale blue afternoon capture.

Another Moon attempt from the 27th – this time a night shot with even more crisp detail.

My continuing adventures in low-budget astrophotography… here’s yesterday’s afternoon daylight Moon, with surprisingly good crater detail. As usual, 20 source photos stacked with Registax and processed a little bit with the wavelet sharpening filter and the highpass filter in PSP.