On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:23:08 -0000, "a l l y"
wrote:


"suave harv" wrote in message
...

Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

I've been out in our nice dark vegetable garden taking photos of the eclipse
in a lovely clear sky here in NW Cumbria. No fancy telescopes or anything,
but the camera has 10x zoom so I'm getting the best photos I've ever managed
of a lunar eclipse. I'll upload some tomorrow, to add to the general
plethora of eclipse photos that will emerge, but can someone answer me this
please? I notice a couple of nice bright stars appearing in my photos, one
on each side of the moon - can anyone tell me what they are? They were
hardly visible with the naked eye, but on a long exposure the camera picked
them up.

Gosh: it was cold out there!

ally



At 2330, the moon was roughly midway between 56Y Leonis (mag. 5.9) to
the west and 59 Leonis (mag. 5.0) to the east, both stars being
slighly less than a moon diameter away.

Dave W.