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Small bore challenge: the Moon w/ 6" or less

Started by BKBrown , May 05 2015 10:01 PM

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#1776 Dulcimore

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Posted 05 January 2025 - 09:44 AM

Good seeing at last! Got this with the ASI662 and 3X @ f/15. 22 panel stitch in ICE on my 150mm SkyWatcher. Usual AutoStakkert, RegiStax and finished in GIMP.

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#1777 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 12:19 AM

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone 12 Pro Max photo of the waxing gibbous Moon and M45 (the Pleiades) during last night's occultation using a 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob and a 28mm Astro-Tech UWA eyepiece.

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#1778 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 12 January 2025 - 01:59 AM

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone 12 Pro Max photo of the waxing gibbous Moon that I took during Thursday night's occultation of M45 (the Pleiades) using a 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob and a 28mm Astro-Tech UWA eyepiece.

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#1779 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 15 January 2025 - 03:13 PM

This is a hand-held afocal iPhone Pro Max 12 photo that I took with the 5" f/5 achromatic refractor that serves as a finder scope for the Naylor Observatory's 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain prior to the occultation of Mars on January 13th. I removed the chromatic aberration that was present in the photo. The lines across the Moon are crosshairs.

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#1780 RoofMonkey911

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Posted 01 February 2025 - 08:53 PM

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#1781 Dulcimore

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Posted 02 February 2025 - 12:33 PM

Not good seeing at last. Got this with the ASI662 and 3X @ f/15. 12 panel stitch in ICE on my 150mm SkyWatcher. Usual AutoStakkert, RegiStax and finished in GIMP.

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#1782 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 01:38 AM

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone shot of the crescent Moon that I took on Saturday night using the 5" refractor that serves as a finder scope for the Naylor Observatory's 17" classical Cassegrain.

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#1783 Dulcimore

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Posted 04 February 2025 - 09:38 AM

Had a little wind last night and seeing wasn't great but...one of my sharpest yet...

https://i.imgur.com/d7SvNCe.jpg

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#1784 chvvkumar

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Posted 04 February 2025 - 09:53 AM

From last night, there were clouds but the seeing was better than it was in months. Askar 140APO, ASI533MM with luminance filter, AS!4 for stacking and Astrosurface4 for editing. 1.5X drizzled.

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#1785 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 06 February 2025 - 04:30 AM

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone 11 Pro photo of the 34.2%-illuminated waxing crescent Moon that I took on Tuesday evening using my 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob and a 24mm Explore Scientific 68-degree eyepiece.

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#1786 Toddeo

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Posted 08 February 2025 - 01:11 PM

Taken with my Questar Field.

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#1787 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 10 February 2025 - 04:49 PM

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone 12 Pro Max photo featuring the craters Tycho and Clavius on February 6th using my 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob.

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#1788 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 10 February 2025 - 05:05 PM

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone 12 Pro Max photo featuring the crater Copernicus that I took using my 6" Apertura AD6 Dob on Friday, February 6th.

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#1789 Dulcimore

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Posted 14 February 2025 - 10:20 AM

Very happy with this one!

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#1790 Pmanucr

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Posted 03 March 2025 - 12:12 AM

Tonight's Moon through minor clouds.

I'm starting to practice for the ISS transit. Forecast is looking cloudy.

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#1791 Dulcimore

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Posted 03 March 2025 - 08:48 AM

It looked very similar from my house!

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#1792 RoofMonkey911

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Posted 03 March 2025 - 08:32 PM

Taken with the Seestar S50

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#1793 Pmanucr

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Posted 04 March 2025 - 12:19 AM

Skies were quite a bit clearer tonight!

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#1794 Alex65

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Posted 04 March 2025 - 12:43 AM

I took this afocal photo of the 3 day old Moon yesterday evening through my 6" Dob, using a 15mm eyepiece (80x). The arrow points to the area that Blue Ghost landed on the other day.

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#1795 quilty

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Posted 04 March 2025 - 04:13 AM

The Skymax 6 can to so much better.
Last evening @ 330x was really great. So cold but I couldn't get off the views.
No lack of crispness or contrast. Just a perfect view, only wabbling a bit.

Just read: "Lunar Observing Forum Rules"

1. Never ever have a peep at its backside

Edited by quilty, 04 March 2025 - 08:36 AM.

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#1796 Hayballs

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Posted 04 March 2025 - 11:02 AM

This was taken last night at 1925hrs, NE Scotland through my Sky-Watcher Star-Travel 102 (4”) Refractor with my Svbony SC311 Wi-Fi camera and my Samsung Galaxy S10+.

It is a single shot with no stacking and modified only using the features in the Svbony Astro app.

I rotated the image so that it lined up with my Moon gazing reference books.

If anyone can tell me the name of the two dark craters, towards the lower half of the Terminator, with internal features illuminated, I’d be very grateful.

Regards

H

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#1797 Pmanucr

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Posted 06 March 2025 - 11:45 PM

3.6.25 Rain earlier in the day. The clouds parted just for this picture!

Skywatcher 150p

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#1798 PKDfan

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Posted 07 March 2025 - 01:49 AM

I was out -Finally yaa- so used both the 60mm spotter @60X for venus in decent seeing pretty high in Edmonton and then used a cooled Evolux 62mm apo and tested out my new 17.3Delos on M42 WOW what exquisite stars the 3.1degree field pinpoint ultra small stars the trap etched @23X and the nebula delineated exceptionally well for B9 skies then took off to Jupiter and brought out 5X for 115X and Very nice belt saturation with poor to tolerable seeing. The white part under the S EQ belt being particularily white. Finally went native again for the moon and Proclus tri-radial arm of its ejecta reaching far across mare crisium and Ariadaeus & Hyginus rille obvious and 5X PM view was nicely framed with a bit of dark space framing her and decent seeing higher up it having a snap-to focus very crisp and sensitive to defocus. A worthy addition to the kit !

It excells at DSO stuff with its incredibly vibrant white stars. A bit of Field curvature no biggy and fairly easy pupil but blackouts too close. Instajust was squeeky but locked well i didn't need much though.
Seems a bit wider than 70°.

Good to catch Mt. Hadley and its long shadow coming out of the terminator when i gained a bit more power so only the Delos edge was in the PM so maybe 130X and alpine valley almost all in shadow. You really need 150X at least to catch sight of it IMO and the next night is ideal after first quarter to try for it.

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Edit wrong true field

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#1799 Dave Mitsky

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Posted 08 March 2025 - 02:25 AM

I took this hand-held afocal photograph of the waxing crescent Moon on Tuesday evening, March 2nd, using the 5" frefractor that serves as a finder scope for the Naylor Observatory's 17" classical Cassegrain and an iPhone 12 Pro Max.