{"id":382,"date":"2009-03-04T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:58:10","slug":"the-lunar-werner-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/the-lunar-werner-x\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lunar Werner X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009 Observing Last Night<br.\nComet Lulin was closing on M44 but growing dimmer as well.\nThen I thought about the moon and how nice it would be to get some \nimages of it tonight... but let's try out the refractor instead.\n\n\n<p>\nOverall I found that the  5\/4&#8243; eyepieces on the 90mm Meade were a lot easier to hold the camera up to the eyepiece and snap off images (than the 2&#8243; eyepieces). I was using a 25mm plossl (about x36 I think), 1\/1000sec exposures and the camera on continuous motor drive as it were&#8230; Starting with wide angle and then zooming in to x4 on the camera optics and changing the exposure<br \/>\nup to 1\/125 sec we had 100 images before you could shake a stick&#8230; good<br \/>\nthing too.. clouds came in and it was cold and Rick Mercer was about to<br \/>\ncome on.<\/p>\n<p>\nThen the cool thing happened&#8230; reviewing the images inside and<br \/>\nnoticed a neat feature lit up on the moon&#8230; in the shape of an X<\/p>\n<p>Cool! It looks like the Lunar X feature  that was imaged without even<br \/>\nhunting for it! (see RASC Journal April 2007). Attached are two small<br \/>\nimages.. one wide angle and the other heavily cropped&#8230;<br \/>\nHere they are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4033v800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4033v800.jpg\" alt=\"img_4033v800\" title=\"img_4033v800\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4033vx800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4033vx800.jpg\" alt=\"img_4033vx800\" title=\"img_4033vx800\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 Observing Last Night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}