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Featuring Video Clips From The Outer Reaches Of Backyard Astronomy

There's nothing like video to convey the atmosphere of being out under the stars

and actually seeing the planets through a high powered scope. There are lots

of interesting sounds captured too - so listen carefully as you view the clips!

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Aristarchus (the bright white crater)

and Shroeter's valley (between the two craters)

Lookout for the dark spokes running

up the crater wall of Aristarchus

West Sechelt - Jan 2009

Roaming The Moon

Part1

West Sechelt - Jan 2009

Notice the 'smiley face' crater at the

left third of the screen, final frame

Roaming The Moon

Part2

West Sechelt - Jan 2009

Roaming The Moon

Part3

Schiller is the elongate crater in the

second half of the clip

West Sechelt - Jan 2009

Roaming The Moon

Part4

Tycho is the Ray Crater

West Sechelt - Jan 2009

Solstice Moon Rise

Trail Bay, May 21st, 2008

File size: 1.3mb

Moon Surface

File size: 821Kb

Moon Storm

File size: 334Kb

Jupiter

(no leaning on the scope now!)

File size: 1.2Mb

What do Canadian Astronomers

talk about at 1.30am?

The Cosmos?

The Planets?

File size: 3.2Mb

Saturn

(need to turn the lights down for this one)

Saturn is a Billion and a half Km away!

File size: 1.2Mb