{"id":7620,"date":"2017-06-06T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:05:28","slug":"luna-20170603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/luna-20170603\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna 20170603"},"content":{"rendered":"

While prepping the scope and waiting for the double shadow transit of Jupiter to start, I did a few quick 30 second imaging runs of the moon. Of note is the difficulty in remembering what it was you imaged, after the fact, and trying to identify the objects!<\/p>\n

All were taken with the 20cm Meade LX200GPS (f10, FL=2000mm) with a x2 barlow and the ZWO ASI 120MC colour camera, on a shaky pier. A short dew shield is attached along with a primary lens heater running at about 20% duty cycle.<\/p>\n

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\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miller_(crater)<\/a>
\nThe first image focus was not too sharp, as we were also battling intermittent clouds wafting by.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mare_Humboldtianum<\/a> was the 2nd image of the night and we used the sharp edge of the moon to help in focusing. After that we slewed left over to:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plato_(crater)<\/a>
\nThis is one of the nicest images of the evening. A combination of rukl’s paper atlas and Virtual Moon Atlas helped to identify it after the fact. Focus was better than the first two images.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archimedes_(crater)<\/a> was next up. Focus was pretty good but I am wondering whether to increase the exposure a tad.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)<\/a> Again this was not too bad at all… closer to the terminator with a few mountain peaks in the light.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proclus_(crater)<\/a><\/p>\n

This was the last lunar image of the evening, as Jupiter was next on the list. A little overexposed on the left side of the crater wall but otherwise not too bad.<\/p>\n

All exposures were on the order of 3 to 10 ms and processed with autostakkert! which also did the sharpening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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