New Image: April 28th

[Baurice]

The evening was surprisingly clear but the bright moon, just past first quarter was drowning out most of the objects in the sky. Not wanting to waste a rare bit of night sky, the obvious target was the Moon itself. It is quite an interesting object and rather photogenic. With a new astro camera, I was not ready to try it out for real and I was not entirely happy with the lunar close-ups I had been doing. Yet I was very happy with the full disc shots I was getting with my Mak and DSLR.

I took a set of images at 1.54 metres focal length, ISO 100 and 1/400 second exposure. I stacked them with Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.