Astrophotography by T.Yoshida Weblog

The weather is awful. It has been cloudy here at night. I haven't taken any pictures for about three months. I didn't have a chance to use my telescope. I hope the weather will be good soon.

My astrophotography have been put on display in Hiroshima city. So I went to Hiroshima last weekend. In Hiroshima I met a lot of people who like to see Astrophotography. I felt really honored and I really appreciate that many people come to see my pictures.

Hiroshima is known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare. So I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Atomic Bomb Dome, by Hiroshima streetcar. I could see the memorical clearly.

We have a fireworks display in summer in our town every year. I went to see it yesterday. There are a lot of people there. I couldn't find a seat which is best place to see fireworks display. So, I decided to see fireworks from the side of a road. Fortunately, I could see a fireworks clearly. So, I try to take a photograph of fireworks with my camera, CanonEOS400D.

Fireworks display are extremely beatiful and gorgeous. That was a lot of fun. I spent beautiful time there.

I also took a picture of the moon on last Sunday night. It's a waning Crescent Moon. Over here in Japan, this moon phase is called "Ariake no Tsuki".

I took this picture with my TOA130s Telescope and Canon DSLR camera. I had been using Nikon D50 modified model for astrophotography. But, I changed mind last year and then I bought a Canon EOS400D. Now I have been using it for taking a picture of Moon.

CanonEOS400D is one of the most popular Digital SLR camera in Japan. A lot of people here taking astrophotography use EOS400D. I also like to use it. It is really dependable.

I took a picture of Clavius crater on the moon last night. The nightsky was very clear. So I can see many tiny details on the Moon.

I used Mewlon300 when I took this picture. Takahashi Mewlon300 is one of the largest model in Takahashi. Over here in Japan, it isn't popular very much. But many American love to use it. I also like to use it.

Clavius Crater is one of the my favrite crater. It's a very large crater on the Moon. It has 225km diameter. I could see many small crater inside in the crater.