Object Name: Moon ~6.2 day

Observation Info

Imaging Info

- Date/Time: 2008-02-12 / 1800 MST

- Camera: Canon 20D

- Location: Fort Collins, CO

- Scope/Lens: TMB 175 f/8

- Limiting Magnitude:

NOTES:

Hi All, you must be wondering how a minimally processed image would turn out. This one us from a 20D camera RAW image, 1 full frame. 1/100 second, ISO 100. Daylight white balance. Converted to a TIFF with the Canon software supplied with the camera, then not manipulated with level adjust, curves. My one concession to pixel-peeping tendencies is a little sharpening in Photoshop CS2, 70% with 0.6 pixel radius. Seeing was about 6 to 7/10, a shade less stable than yesterday, South wind in the yard. Focus is easier to see in a 20D than a Rebel XT for sure.

Color helps this one in the maria. It would look a little flat in just B&W without the tweaks.

Ephemeris Data:

-6.5 = Libration in Latitude (B)
-1.2 = Libration in Longitude (L)
346.7 = Colongitude of the Sun (Co)
-0.1 = Subsolar point Lat (Bo)
103.3 = Subsolar point Long (Lo)
13.3 = Lunar Long of terminator
37.6% = Sunlit % of Moon's disc
249.6 = Angle of bright limb
-18.6 = Angle of polar axis