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Friday 13th Moon

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I woke up early to test the guiding of my AVX and had hoped to image some DSO but Murphy happened to visit me and before I knew it, the Sun is rising.

So I decided to image the Moon. Skies were very poor with the Moon dancing around in the scope like crazy so the results are less than stellar!

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Nice contrast, Steve! Love the ejecta rays you've pulled out around Copernicus. :)

When life gives you lemons, throw lemons back at life as hard as you can. :D
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bladekeeper wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:17 pm Nice contrast, Steve! Love the ejecta rays you've pulled out around Copernicus. :)

When life gives you lemons, throw lemons back at life as hard as you can. :D
Thanks Bryan...

I threw the lemons as hard as I can.

I tried stacking multiple images but the Moon was shimmering so much, the stacking made it worse so I stuck with the best single frame.
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That's a wonderful image.
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patrickdives wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:57 pm That's a wonderful image.
Thanks Patrick...
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Great job Steve!

Looking forward to your tracking test. Also looking forward to some clear skies!

Thanks,
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Juno16 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 3:21 pm Great job Steve!

Looking forward to your tracking test. Also looking forward to some clear skies!

Thanks,
Jim
Thanks Jim

Not much chance of clear skies this week :(


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Super image Steve. When I got up this morning at 6am the moon was shining through the clouds and into the living room. Quite a beautiful sight. Hadn't seen the sky for a week because of rain and clouds.
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helicon wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:29 pm Super image Steve. When I got up this morning at 6am the moon was shining through the clouds and into the living room. Quite a beautiful sight. Hadn't seen the sky for a week because of rain and clouds.
Thanks Michael.

I could have read a newspaper from the brightness and knew I would not get close to a bladekeeper quality image with all of the shimmering going on. The Moon was not too high above the horizon which didn't help.
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This night the viewing was excellent. The skies cleared for less than an hour.

This is a shot thru the tree limbs as it was too $@#$@#$ cold to wait for it to clear them. It was around 4F

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