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[Borodog]

top notch!

 

Bob

 

 

No way, it's perfect!

 

BQ

Thanks gents. It barely fit the sensor. It's shown in the actual FOV of the chip. I had to bump it by hand every 10 seconds or so to keep it away from the edge. It was too cloudy to accurately polar align, so it was drifting fast, and the fit was so tight I could not get SharpCap's Feature Tracking to calibrate. Plus there were lots of clouds moving fast, so when I saw an opportunity, I turned off the targeting computer and used the Force instead.

[Dave Mitsky]

I was too tired to set up my 6" Orion Dob on Tuesday morning, so I took my grab-and-go 80mm Orion ShortTube 80 achromatic refractor outside instead and took this afocal iPhone photo using an 8-24mm Tele Vue Click Stop Zoom eyepiece.

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[james7ca]

A single frame taken of last night's gibbous moon using a Nikon Z8 and NIKKOR Z 180-600mm VR f/5.6-6.3 lens. Processed using Photoshop 2024 with additional capture details in the image captions.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's an afocal iPhone photograph of the waning gibbous Moon that I took this morning using my 80mm Orion ShortTube 80 achromatic refractor.

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[Dave Mitsky]

This shot was taken after sunrise this morning.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I neglected to post this hand-held afocal shot of the 99%-illuminated Moon that I took using my iPhone, a 25mm Orion Plössl, and a 6” Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob on June 21st. 

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone photo that I took on Saturday night using my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob.  The Lunar V and Lunar X became visible during the morning but were still prominent.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I took afocal photo on Sunday night using my iPhone and 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob before going to the Naylor Observatory to help out with the ASH July public observing session.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone shot that I took on Monday night using my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob and a 17.5mm Baader Planetarium Morpheus eyepiece.

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[Dave Mitsky]

This is a close-up view.

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[james7ca]

Wednesday night's waxing gibbous moon as captured with a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR lens. This is a single frame capture since at this image scale I don't think stacking helps that much. The moon appears somewhat warm in color because of its low altitude at this phase and time of year (i.e. during summer the full moon will appear lowest in the sky and during winter it will be at its highest). Image processing with Photoshop 2024 and there are additional capture details in the captions.

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[james7ca]

Here is Thursday night's waxing gibbous moon as captured with a single frame using a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR lens. This time I tweaked the color balance to remove some of the warmth that is normally added when the moon is so low in the sky. The seeing conditions were pretty bad given the moon's modest altitude and if you look along the right limb of the moon you can see some of the fine-scale distortions that this caused (particularly along the upper right limb). Image processing with Photoshop 2024 and there are additional capture details in the captions.

 

The shadowed crater with the central peak that appears on the moon's upper left (north west) terminator is Pythagoras.

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Edited by james7ca, 19 July 2024 - 12:19 AM.

[Caddman]

I captured this with a Takahashi FOA-60Q using a ZWO ASI178 MC.

 

 

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[TristanE]

Got another mosaic of the moon on 7-17.  Didn't get around to processing it until today.  Missed a tiny spot but I just put a little gray box over it so its not that noticeable unless you reallyyyyy look for it. 

Celestron Nexstar 4se sv305. 

as! rgstx ice

image is too big to upload so here is the astrobin link for full resolution

https://www.astrobin.com/isuwxv/ 

 

All comments and criticisms welcome.

[gstrumol]

Here are some shots I took last night with my Apex 90 Mak and Canon T7 DSLR:

 

(click to enlarge)

 

Nearly full moon was very low in the sky at the time of filming (~ 15^o alt only)

[james7ca]

Got another mosaic of the moon on 7-17.  Didn't get around to processing it until today.  Missed a tiny spot but I just put a little gray box over it so its not that noticeable unless you reallyyyyy look for it. 

Celestron Nexstar 4se sv305. 

as! rgstx ice

image is too big to upload so here is the astrobin link for full resolution

https://www.astrobin.com/isuwxv/ 

 

All comments and criticisms welcome.

That link seems to generate a 404 error (page not found)

[james7ca]

Another single frame capture with a Nikon Z8. This was taken Friday night with the moon higher in the sky since I could wait longer given that there were no clouds tonight (as yet). The seeing was definitely better than on Wednesday and Thursday. Plus, I carried the camera and photo tripod down to a location where I could shoot over some grass rather than the concrete, asphalt, and rooftops that I have around my home.

 

Full capture details are in the captions. Image processing with Photoshop 2024. Still one more day until the full moon (on Sunday morning PDT).

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Edited by james7ca, 20 July 2024 - 02:44 AM.

[RMay]

This turned out rather nicely; iPhone 12 Pro to the 20mm eyepiece of my 3.5 at 70x magnification. I don’t usually shoot almost-full moons, but was prepping for an upcoming ISS transit.

 

Ron

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone shot of the partially obscured by clouds 99.0%-illuminated Moon that I took on Sunday night using my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob and a 17.5mm Baader Planetarium Morpheus eyepiece.

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[TristanE]

That link seems to generate a 404 error (page not found)

Hopefully this works...

https://astrob.in/isuwxv/0/

[james7ca]

A shot of Thursday night's crescent moon taken using a single frame from a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR zoom lens (600mm, f/8, 1/60s, ISO200). Image processing with Photoshop 2024.

 

I think a stack using AutoStakkert! should produce a better result and I have a few hundred images taken in a burst capture that still need to be processed.

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Edited by james7ca, 09 August 2024 - 03:46 AM.

[RMay]

Trying out a new iPhone 15 Pro last night with my Questar 3.5. Still trying to figure out the best mounting method…

 

Ron

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[RMay]

Yep… liking the phone.

 

Ron

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[Dave Mitsky]

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone photograph of the 54%-illuminated Moon on Monday night using a 17.5mm Morpheus eyepiece and a 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob.

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[james7ca]

A shot of Tuesday night's waxing gibbous moon taken using a single frame from a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR zoom lens (600mm, f/8, 1/100s, ISO125). Image processing with Photoshop 2024.

 

Click on the preview to see at full size (1600 x 1200 pixels).

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