Astronomy Picture of the Day

[StephenM]

Hi all,

I'm a happy chappy today, because this image (http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?103262-Moon-and-Mercury-rising-over-Brisbane-CBD-19th-April) has been selected as NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" for April 26th 2012 :D

This is not my first image published, but it's the most high-profile to date. If you're interested, here it is:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Cheers,
Stephen

[mpb]

Congratulations, a wonderful image. Well done and keep up the good work and keep sharing, please.

[Mat]

a great result, congratulations

[bushbikie]

Well done, cracker of an image!

[Stingray]

WOW... WOW! .. that is amazing Stephen .. well done :) .. did I say WOW? I cant think of anything else to say .. but WOW!! ;)
oh .. except ...I think could you give a run down on how to do that? I would love to give something like that a go .. please?
:)

[old dog]

good work Stephen. A nice little pat on the ol back.

[Bennymiata]

Fabulous!

[Patagonia]

Its great as it shows how the position affects the "shadow" part of the moon, well done!

[StephenM]

Thanks guys! It was nice to have that image featured as an APOD. The archived link is:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120426.html

Daz, I basically set the camera up on a tripod and took an image every 3 minutes for about 1 hr, and then stacked them all using the free software Startrails (www.startrails.de).

Cheers,
Stephen