Telescope Reviews: my first moon image...

Hi all,

I was looking through some old photos and I found the first moon photograph that I took (at least that wasn't overexposed). It is from March 25, 1972 and was taken using a Yashica rangefinder camera with Tri X Pan film, and a 60 mm Sears refractor at FL=900 mm. The camera back was opened, the moon was focused using a piece of opaque ground glass, and then the glass was removed and the film inserted ! Those were the old days... nothing like that now... The telescope is shown and also my projection screen setup that I prepared a few minutes before the solar eclipse of June 10, 1972 (photo taken at about 3pm EST). It is nice to keep journals

In those days I did all of my film developing and printing myself.

Anyway... a little nostalgia for those of us with some grey hair...

Rick

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Rick Evans
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"The universe is there for us to see, but it cannot be understood without learning its language -- mathematics." Galileo Galilei

Edited by revans (07/02/09 03:07 PM)

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