Not bad for an 80mm, eh?

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Not bad for an 80mm, eh?

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The actual link to the full 25" size image is [/url]http://www.peterson-web.com/images/200106Luna25.jpg[/url] and one may enlarge to full size from there.

Since the moon's been impacting the past several days observing, and since other priorities didn't free me up until 19:30, I turned the little $119 80mm f/11.3 refractor on the moon and mounted my $140 Celestron NexImage 5MP planet cam. Ran a 6 position mosaic to fit the entire object, 1000 frames each.

Maybe I just lucked out with good seeing, but this appears to be the sharpest moon image I've ever run.

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That is one fine image (or six) Pete, very sharp indeed!
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Pete

That is a spectacular image of the Moon!! Really crisp details. Very well done.

Do you mind if I use your image in my astronomy class??

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I like it, Pete! I especially like the way Aristarchus looks with the sun rising over the rim. 8)
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That's a beautiful image, Pete. Is that the Orion white scope you were using?

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Actually there are two 80mm refractors piggybacked on the 14". There's a little white Orion 80mm short tube (400mm FL) that was purchased from Roger M to allow my planet cams to fully cover the sun's/moon's 30' size. But there's an older blue Orion 80mm with a 900 mm (f/11.3) that I originally purchased as a guidescope.

Because of it's long focal length the second refractor shows no color and functions very well. It's occasionally used as a finder scope for the 14", and is handy for planet cam imaging when the SBIG is on the main scope. This image is a mosaic of 6 sections: upper right, upper left, middle right, middle left, lower right & lower left - 1000 frames each at 1/350 second (and at maximum full 2700X1900 unbinned format) on the 5 MP Celestron NexImage 5.

The 80 mm short tube, on the other hand, shows color and is really tough to focus for the camera. But it'll do an eclipse or a transit, which is what it's used for.

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Beautiful! Nailed focus too :!: 8) :D
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