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Object Name:

Moon 15day

Observation Info

- Date/Time: 2008-01-23 / 2235 MST

- Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

- Limiting Magnitude:

- Seeing:
- Transparency:
- Temp./Wind:

Imaging Info

- Camera: Canon XT

- Scope/Lens: TMB 175 f/8

- Optical path: Prime focus
- Filter(s):
- ISO Setting/Film: ISO 100
- Exposure time, #: 1/800s, 1 RAW frame

NOTES:

Seeing was about 3 arcsecond most of the tiime.  Could not see the ring-planet gap on Saturn.  The highlights of the brightest craters pop at Full Moon, like a string of beads across the disk. 

The libration also makes the limb interesting on the Terminator.  You can make out Mare Marginus by Mare Criseum, Neper, Mare Smythii, Ansgarius, Hecataeus and Humbolt with its central peaks.  The last is about the 4 o'clock spot on the rim.  RAW file, brightness, contrast, curves in PS CS2.

 

Image © 2008 Dan Laszlo

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Updated: 25-Feb-2008