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  DSC_0272_Moon.jpg - Here is our first "Moon shot" with our 8" Meade LX-90 telescope and D-100 camera. The Moon is about 4 days past full moon. The photo was taken at about 11:20PM AZ time, about an hour after the moonrise in the east. Skies were mostly clear. A thin haze intermittently threatened our photography efforts, and this was about the best of the lot. Since there is so little color information in a moon photograph anyway, we were able to upload the original 2240x1488 image without scaling it down, by converting it to grayscale (364K). It is difficult to distinguish the color image (which looks gray anyway) from the grayscale. The camera body is mounted at "prime focus" on the back of the telescope, replacing the eyepiece. There is no "helper magnification" from an eyepiece, Barlow lens, telephoto extender, or the like, so the camera CCD is viewing the Moon at the "native" magnification of the 8" mirror and telescope optical path. Focal length: 2000mm, exp 1/100, ISO 1000.  
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 DSC 0272 Moon | Here is our first "Moon shot" with our 8" Meade LX-90 telescope and D-100 camera. The Moon is about 4 days past full moon. The photo was taken at about 11:20PM AZ time, about an hour after the moonrise in the east. Skies were mostly clear. A thin haze intermittently threatened our photography efforts, and this was about the best of the lot. Since there is so little color information in a moon photograph anyway, we were able to upload the original 2240x1488 image without scaling it down, by converting it to grayscale (364K). It is difficult to distinguish the color image (which looks gray anyway) from the grayscale. The camera body is mounted at "prime focus" on the back of the telescope, replacing the eyepiece. There is no "helper magnification" from an eyepiece, Barlow lens, telephoto extender, or the like, so the camera CCD is viewing the Moon at the "native" magnification of the 8" mirror and telescope optical path. Focal length: 2000mm, exp 1/100, ISO 1000. Download
Headline: DSC_0272_Moon.jpg - Phoenix, February 19, 2003 | Object Name: DSC_0272_Moon.jpg | Author: Alex Forbes | City: Phoenix | State/Province: Arizona | Country: United States of America | Source: Nikon D100 | Copyright: copyright by author | Keywords: moon Astronomy
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