Very thin Moon Crescent

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #1 10-01-2008, 11:49 PM

Last night I wasn't able to image the 0.006 Phase Moon. It was too thin to show up!!!!!!

But tonight I got it. It was a bit thicker tonight

Quality is down because it was setting into a tree while I was imaging it

iceman (Mike) · #2 11-01-2008, 06:11 AM

Lovely image, Ken! Was that with the ToUcam through the ED80? At prime focus or with a barlow?

saberscorpx · #3 11-01-2008, 08:54 AM

Nice catch.
Still shows a decent tail of desegmentation at the tips, too.

A case of Fosters to the first imager who captures the entire necklace, btw.

SJS

RB (Andrew) · #4 11-01-2008, 10:03 AM

Nice one Ken.

Stephen65 · #5 11-01-2008, 10:17 AM

Very nice indeed

sheeny (Al) · #6 11-01-2008, 01:26 PM

Nice one, Ken.

Any other night I'd have had a go myself but the pressure was on getting the house ready for inspection today...

Al.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #7 11-01-2008, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Lovely image, Ken! Was that with the ToUcam through the ED80? At prime focus or with a barlow?

Yep, ED80 and Toucam. Prime Focus, Mike.

A mosaic of 2 images

It didn't quite fit in the FOV even with the Focal Reducer

About 3/4 of the crescent was in the FOV in each section.

h0ughy (David) · #8 11-01-2008, 02:00 PM

well done Ken