Category: Solar System

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3/29/2026 ISS Transits the Moon!

Here’s a shout out to my friend, Bo Edwards, keeping an eye out for these things. We were able to catch the International Space Station transiting the Moon Sunday night at about 8:30. The ISS was very bright, brighter than some parts of the Moon, so you can follow it as it passed in front of the Moon. It was all over in about a second. See the video, the composite, and the closeup. I rotated the composite so that it would look the way we saw it and how the Moon normally looks. Shot with a Canon R6 paired with a 1500mm FL MCT. Each frame was 1/4000th of a second at ISO 25600.

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3/3/2026 Lunar Eclipse with a jet

I’m late to the party, had a full day Tuesday, but here are my images of the March 3 Lunar eclipse from the end of my driveway. Mine has an airplane going through it! Each image was just over a half second long so the plane had time to move.

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12/26/2025 Lunar X, L, and V

Thanks go out to my friend Deepak Kumar for mentioning this event to me. The Lunar L, X and Lunar V features on the Moon are simply impact crater rims, with maybe some mountain ridges thrown in, that happen to look familiar to people who use the Roman alphabet. Once every lunar cycle, they are all brightly lit and visible, if you look. Look along the terminator, which is the line between line and shadow, local dawn on the Moon. Just above the bottom is the Lunar L. About a quarter way up from the bottom, the Lunar X stands out. Now look a little more than halfway up, the Lunar V is also there though perhaps not as prominent. This was taken around 8PM Friday night, with my 127mm Maksutov telescope and my Canon T8i camera. Ten frames stacked and sharpened with Autostakkert (a free little program designed just for this kind of thing). You might also think you see a Lunar O, but there are a lot of those here. 🙂

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