Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Custer Observatory Program

A Halloween Treat at the Custer Observatory!


Join Custer for a spooky movie night with a special screening of this original silent classic. Live music performed by Thomas Mangano. For a great Halloween family treat, step back into movie history and relive the thrill of movie days gone by. Performance starts at 7:00pm. This performance is expected to sell out early, so please come early for best seating! 

*Due to the nature of the subject matter, parental guidance is suggested.

Suggested Donation: Non-Members $10, Members $8, Children $5.

 
About the Film

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok"). Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, one print of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.



Friday, October 10, 2014

Total Lunar Eclipse

Sunken Meadow State Park
Kings Park, NY

The weather was not cooperating very much. We were having rain and heavy cloud cover but I was able to shoot some of the Lunar Eclipse through holes in the clouds.

Lunar Eclipse and Uranus


ISS & Waxing Gibbous Moon October 4, 2014

International Space Station and the Waxing Gibbous Moon

Long Island, NY

Waxing Gibbous Moon and ISS on top right

Constellation Orion, Big Dipper and Jupiter - September 28, 2014

Constellation Orion, The Big Dipper and Jupiter and its Moons

Southold, New York

Constellation Orion Over the Custer Observatory Dome

Jupiter and its Moons

The Big Dipper


Summer 2014 Moon Images

The Varied Faces of the Moon

 Long Island, New York

Crescent Moon - June 29, 2014

Super Full Buck Moon - July 13, 2014
Super Full Sturgeon Moon through cloud cover- August 8, 2014
Setting Super-moon distorted through Earth's Atmosphere- August 10, 2014
Daytime Waning Gibbous Moon - August 13, 2014

Daytime Waning Gibbous Moon - August 15, 2014
Last Quarter Moon - August 17, 2014
Crescent Moon through cloud cover- August 29, 2014
Waxing Gibbous - September 4, 2014
Full Corn Moon - September 9, 2014
Waning Gibbous Moon with Glimmer Path - September 12, 2014

Lunar "X" & "V" - September 1, 2014

Lunar "X" and Lunar "V"

Southold, NY



Moon, Venus, Jupiter Conjunction - August 23, 2014

Crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter Conjunction

Long Island, NY