Astroblog: First Lunar Images with Don

Sunday, May 27, 2007

First Lunar Images with Don

It's been pretty dire astronomy wise here, with the weather being good for the garden, but not for observing. couple this with exam time and kids with the flu, and not much observing happened recently. However, I got one chance to get "Don" out and take my first Lunar images with the 8". As you can see they are very nice, but not spectacular. It turns out the location of the motor drive is such that anything in the western sky below 30 degrees is out of bouds, as I can't lock off the mounting. So I "reverse polar" aligned the scope (ie pointed it North insetad of South), which meant I could now image the Moon, but the clock drive was useless. So these images are drift images, with a lot of turblulence. These images are a stack of 30 from an AVI, stacked with Registax.

Hopefully I can have a go later this week, with the clock drive enabled.

Labels: Moon, Observational Astronomy, webcam

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:06 pm

Comments:

Even with the drift and turbulence,the images came out GREAT!.Too bad about the motor location but,hopefully you won't have to deal with that problem very often?!.
Andrew

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