New Image: Moon April 6th

[Baurice]

After a day that weather forecasters have termed “changeable”, since I first remember seeing them on the gogglebox, it finally cleared to reveal a moon that was just past the full phase and a haze that was scattering its light. Nothing else showed. Although Mars had not set, it was too far to show a decent image except in the large professional observatories. So the Moon it was. My original intention was to catch some full disc shots and leave it at that. Yet, I decided to revisit an old idea, which was to take some regional shots of the Moon with my 2x Barlow lens, instead of my usual 2x Barlow.



The first set of shots was with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/1000 second exposure.

[Makuser]

Hello Philip. A very nice lunar full moon image with your Mak telescope and 2x Barlow lens on the flickr site. Very nice contrast, which is hard to do with a bright full moon washing everything out. The mare regions show up nicely as does the ejecta rays from Crater Tycho. Thanks for sharing this view with us Philip and keep looking up.