Astro Seoul

I couldn’t catch the “smiley face” but I got these from my balcony, taken with my Canon 50D using an EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens.

This was at ISO 640 for 2 seconds

And a little lighter:

This one was at ISO 800 for 4 seconds

The following was taken with a Canon 50D hooked up to my LX90 with a camera adapter. I found camera shake a problem, as well as shimmering air on the night, and these account for the slightest blurring of the shots I took. This one though was reasonable. I’ll have to get a shutter release cable.

Taken 03-11-08

This is a picture of the Rheita Valley region. The flat area you can see top right is Mare Nectaris and the deep crater below it, about mid photo, is the crater Piccolomini.

Wikipedia says it is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southeastern sector of the Moon. The crater Rothmann lies to the west-southwest, and to the south is Stiborius. The lengthy Rupes Altai begins at the western rim of Piccolomini, curving to the northwest. The crater is named after 17th century Italian Archbishop and astronomer Alessandro Piccolomini. It is 88 kilometers in diameter and 4,500 meters deep. It is from the Upper Imbrian period, 3.8 to 3.2 billion years ago.

A few hundred kilometers north of Mare Nectaris is were the first moon landing took place.