Lunar imaging

Feb25
by catz on February 25, 2015 at 16:34 and modified on February 25, 2015. at 16:35
Posted In: astronomy
1st lunar imaging with zwo awi 120mc camera

1st lunar imaging with zwo awi 120mc camera

This is the first attempt at lunar imaging (Mare Crisium region) with the ZWO ASI 120MC camera on a 10cm Meade SC Monday night (2015 Feb 23) in the late afternoon (5:20pm local), so the sky was still bright.

30 seconds got 1698 frames, of which 50% were used to stack this image. It was then flipped (top to bottom) and white balanced to get what you see above.

There were a few mis-settings on the camera software, which will be corrected next time… maybe tonight?