This was a collaborative project between two Northerners (Matthew Ota and Ed Rhodes Jr.) and myself to try and capture a 3D image of the lunar eclipse. Matthew has combined the images from Mt Wilson and Werribee.
Cross your eyes, concentrate on the image in the middle, it'll focus eventually, then you get the 3D effect.
I think the images should be swapped side for viewing with crossed eyes. As they are I think the effect is much better when fused directly by relaxing the eyes as if looking into the distance, but focused on the screen - that way the moon really stands out better in 3D in front of the screen, rather than dished behind it. That is a slightly more difficult technique, but years of nova searching with eye loupes and pairs of film negs makes it easy for me
Sorry it took so long to respond. We used a world wide baseline to get the maximum 3D effect. However many kilometers it was from Mt Wilson Observatory in California to Australia. It can be done with the Moon without an eclipse too, as well as the Sun with a lot of sunspots showing. It does not work on the planets due their small angular size.
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
oh WOW! That is cooool!!!!!!
Can this effect be done on any object, and how easy is it? Or is it a bit difficult to achieve?
I like that APOD, waiting for the moon's libration really makes a big 3D effect. I need to try that.
Here is one that I did with Paul Stewart (NZ), we simply imaged the moon at the same time from our two slightly different locations on earth (I'm east coast Australia).
Still, the effect is very clear around the edges especially. It actually worked!
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