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[Bob Campbell]

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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Cool!

 

Here is a youtuber that tries to pinpoint the exact landing  site:

 

https://youtu.be/xWk...5vXyTSsA0xIhErm

 

Bob

[Sinemetu63]

A few shots from march 5-7 with mediocre seeing.

I haven't imaged the moon for quite some  time and I think never with the 6" mak and I am surprised by the level of the details shown, the difference with the 5 mak is clear.

Anyway the moon is always rewarding.

Paolo

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Edited by Sinemetu63, 09 March 2025 - 08:37 AM.

[Sinemetu63]

Cassini and vallis Alpes  

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[Sinemetu63]

Arzhachel, Alphonsus, Ptolomeus, Albategnus

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[Sinemetu63]

Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus

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[EJN]

03-09-2025

Taken with a vintage 60mm f/11.7 Sears achromat refractor.

Prime focus with a Canon SL1 DSLR, ISO 200, Sigma 1.4x teleconverter, 1/50 sec

980mm efl, f/16.3

Shot monochrome with a #15 yellow filter

 

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Edited by EJN, 09 March 2025 - 09:38 PM.

[Bob Campbell]

Scottsdale 3/9/25. seeing and transparency was very good.

 

Jet stream suggested that seeing should be quite good (blue/green is < 20mph). Probably had some local seeing perturbations from roof plumes.

 

 

 

I did some stacks, but I was underwhelmed. However, here is a single 2 msec snapshot through my C6 paired with an asi678mc. I just took a bunch of singles and tried to capture the moment of steady seeing rather than stack in the traditional sense, although it was 'lucky' imaging in that I did capture the steady moment.

 

 

Bob

Edited by Bob Campbell, 10 March 2025 - 01:28 AM.

[dev81]

The photo was taken 4 days ago using 120mm achromat. It's a mosaic of 4 photos, each stack 50% of 1000 frames. B & UV/IR cut filter.

Full image here

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Edited by dev81, 11 March 2025 - 03:14 AM.

[gstrumol]

Quick moon shots from last night with the AT80EDL and Canon T7 DSLR:

 

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone shot of the waxing gibbous Moon and Mars during the conjunction on Saturday night that I took using a 26mm Tele Vue smooth side Plössl and my 80mm f/5 ShortTube 80 refractor. 

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[highfnum]

Celestron Cometron Jr  jones-bird type

 

 

[EJN]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone shot of the waxing gibbous Moon and Mars during the conjunction on Saturday night that I took using a 26mm Tele Vue smooth side Plössl and my 80mm f/5 ShortTube 80 refractor. 

I got a shot of that too, using a C80ED and Canon SL1 at prime focus.

 

 

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Edited by EJN, 12 March 2025 - 01:11 AM.

[Dave Mitsky]

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone photograph of the waxing gibbous Moon on Monday night using a 17.5mm Baader Morpheus and a 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob.

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[james7ca]

The photo was taken 4 days ago using 120mm achromat. It's a mosaic of 4 photos, each stack 50% of 1000 frames. B & UV/IR cut filter.

Full image here

The full-sized version on Astrobin has a lot of detail and you've even captured all three of the Apollo 11 craters at a not very optimum phase of the moon (for those craters). Nice work and thanks for posting.

[Pmanucr]

Freaking Clouds!  I watched the clouds roll in just as the blood moon started. 

I took about 300 photos every time the clouds thinned hoping to catch a glimpse.  

 

ISO 2000, .5sec exposure, single shot

 

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[Pmanucr]

This was shot 2 hours before the blood moon.  Heavy haze in the air, light clouds.  Really nothing spectacular, but I wanted to document because this is my first MOSIAC with Microsoft ICE. 

 

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[lakeorion]

TS 102 f11 and Nikon D7500

[AZ85623]

SeeStar S50  --  50mm triplet objective and 2 megapixel IMX462 sensor

1 minute raw.avi video processed in autostakkert and registax

 

 

My question for the group:  Is this the best I can get from a two inch objective ???

[james7ca]

SeeStar S50  --  50mm triplet objective and 2 megapixel IMX462 sensor

1 minute raw.avi video processed in autostakkert and registax

 

 

 

My question for the group:  Is this the best I can get from a two inch objective ???

There are more variables involved here than just the size of the objective (things like the seeing conditions and the image scale). But, here is a CN link (in this same thread) where I captured an image of a similar phase of the moon using a 50mm aperture Stellarvue SV50ED scope with a barlow and an old QHY5III-178C camera (taken just over seven years ago).

 

  https://www.cloudyni...20#entry8201054

Edited by james7ca, 16 March 2025 - 11:26 PM.

[gstrumol]

I got a shot of that too, using a C80ED and Canon SL1 at prime focus.

 

 

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Excellent shot!  

[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a simple iPhone shot of the Moon rising through a tree in my front yard that I took on March 14th.

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[quilty]

This was shot 2 hours before the blood moon.  Heavy haze in the air, light clouds.  Really nothing spectacular, but I wanted to document because this is my first MOSIAC with Microsoft ICE.

The moons looks icy indeed Maybe you didn't properly insulate your scope :-)

Edited by quilty, 31 March 2025 - 04:53 AM.

[RoofMonkey911]

Just a wee sliver of the moon captured right after sunset with the Seestar s50

 

[TienTran@134]

I have this image captured on 7th February using my Vixen R130S and an industrial camera. Probably, too much saturation but I like how blue the Tycho crater and the south pole is.

 

Thank you for looking !!! 

 

 

[highfnum]

Tasco 132T

76mm