The Universe through my telescope V

As the title of this post indicates, this is the fifth post in the series of posts where I share astronomy pictures clicked through my telescope. This is my favorite kind of post to write because I am the content creator and it satisfying to share with the world what you have created (in this case, I am only clicking a photograph :-) ). Also, these posts are much easier to write as I don't have to spend a lot of time researching the topic. In spite of such advantages, lately, I haven't had the opportunity to click any new photos of the wonderful universe around us. But in this post, I will be sharing a few pictures from the past that I hadn't shared in the blog.

The first photo is one of my favorites because, unlike all the other photos on my blog, I clicked this one during the day. Though the moon is not different from what we see at night, the blue background makes the moon look really beautiful!

Apart from the above picture of the moon, I also captured the moon during the lunar eclipse on October 8, 2014. This was the first time I watched a lunar eclipse. Though it was a wonderful experience, I must admit that it was not as amazing as watching a solar eclipse. I was also not prepared, hence I couldn't use my telescope. Instead I used my telescope's viewfinder and I managed to capture some not so spectacular images.

Here we see the earth's shadow partially covering the moon's surface.

Here you can see the moon becoming red in color. This happens because the earth's atmosphere scatters light at the blue end of the spectrum of sunlight back to earth, while letting the light at the red end of the spectrum to pass through (This is why the sky is blue during the day). Since the earth is in between the moon and the sun during the lunar eclipse, this light that passes through our atmosphere, falls on the moon and turns it red.

If you liked these pictures, do check out the other parts in this series - Part I, II, III and IV.