Monday, April 30, 2012

The First Quarter




This is the moon as seen over Makati City, Philippines last night. Taken using handheld Olympus E-PL2
at 150mm.

The moon is probably the most photographed object in the night sky. In 1839 John W. Draper captured the first known photograph of the moon, making him not only the first astrophotographer but launching the age of astrophotography. It is great how imaging technologies have advantage recently - now anyone with simple digital camera can take moon photos with visible details like in the one above.

No comments: