After yesterday’s foray into Solar Photography, I decided to capture the moon as well. Here are a couple of images from last night’s lunar photography session. They are hardly worthy of Astronomy Picture of the Day, but it’s a start. The 130mm f/5 astrograph is a deep sky instrument not a planetary tool. The 250mm F/8 RC astrograph would have been a better choice, I think.
First is an image of Moon’s terminator that is comprised of the best 1000 frames from an AVI consisting of 5000 frames taken at 1/100th second at ISO320 with 5X zoom.
The bright crater in the upper center is Copernicus. From the upper right to the left to Copernicus is the flat plain of the crater Plato, then the dark plain of Mare Imbrium and finally Copernicus with its central mountain.
The following image of the Copernicus region is comprised of the best 212 frames from an AVI sequence of 2120 frames at the lunar limb at 10X camera zoom.
