[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

I'm staying with my sister-in-law Lyn and her husband Graham in Pt MacQuarie for a few days, last night was a general viewing night for them and other rellies, so what do we look at? The moon of course!

Started out just visual, then after a while I wondered if my DX would work at prime focus (haven't tried this before) so I dropped it in and hooked up the laptop. Well, the view was stunning. I definitely have to do more widefield lunar stuff, without the powermate everything is 6x easier :-)

After a while I started recording, so there will be some very nice widefield lunar images coming up in this thread over the next few days.

At prime focus I can fit about 1/6 of the moon in the field of view, eg Mare Serentatis just fits. At this scale it's feasible to try a lunar mosaic in one night...

cheers, Bird