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Originally Posted by astro744
Two weeks from 24/6 is 8/7, (Friday) and Moon is Gibbous and getting fuller over that weekend. Any benefits of Bortle 2 skies will be lost in the moonlight at least visually. Moonset on 8/7 is around 12:45am eastern states and later each following night.
My only experience with EAA is with a mono Watec 120N of the Moon with Saturn occultation, Mars, Jupiter and Omega Centauri which resolved nicely in a TV-101.
I would keep it simple and go visual only and for that extra punch perhaps use a binoviewer if you have one for the Moon. It has plenty of wow factor especially at Gibbous phase as the 3D effect takes viewing the Moon to an extra level.
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I'm not 'too' worried about the Moon, it will probably be the first target anyway. Hopefully I will be able to work around it. I've tried visual with some of these people before & I think EAA will be easier.
If they are interested I will be doing mono on the second night and while Ha probably isn't really suited for EAA I wouldn't mind testing a few high gain short exposures using my full setup with ROI set - I love Ha.
Then I can easily move to a few hours of normal imaging.
Cheers.