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Lunar closeups

Submitted by David on Thu, 2009-07-02 17:12

Here's an image from three days ago (June 29, 2009). This is a full-sized crop of the original. I've tweaked the image slightly (grayscaling to improve chromatic aberration, and a touch of unsharp masking), but the effects are cosmetic; you can still see the same details in the original. The smallest craters clearly visible near the terminator are less than 10 km across: for example, you can see Hyginus A, at 8 km, and it's clearly more than just a couple of pixels). Not bad for a $250 optical tube and a $250 compact non-DSLR camera. It's definitely better than the first few views of the Moon I got through a $3000 telescope 25 years ago!
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#2Submitted by help me essay (not verified) on Wed, 2010-03-03 15:20.

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spectacular shot! As all th rest pictures of Moon!

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#4Submitted by Matt John (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-22 04:28.

Thanks, I wasn't sure for

Thanks, I wasn't sure for myself until I thought to try it.

Mind you, this is "zoomed in" more than the telescope alone can do as I was zooming in with the camera's lens power into the eye piece. Using the telescope alone I couldn't get quite THAT close. It was very hard to not wobble though.

Oh, and now I'm very excited to get Saturn (when it moves position to be more visible). It looked good in the scope already, but with this trick, I can't WAIT to see it. :)

regards,

Matt John
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