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[Dave Mitsky]

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone photo of the 15.6-day-old Moon last night using a 25mm Meade Series 5000 HD-60 and a 6" Apertura AD6 Dob.

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Edited by Dave Mitsky, 12 June 2025 - 09:03 PM.

[james7ca]

A single frame (no stacking and from a fixed tripod) shot of Friday night's crescent moon. Taken with a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm VR lens. Image processing with Photoshop 2025. There are additional capture details in the image captions and you can click on the below preview/thumbnail to see the full-size image as hosted here on CN (1600 x 1200 pixels).

 

I have a series of still images that I can stack to produce a better result, both on the earthshine and a second sequence using a shorter exposure for the sunlit side of the moon (i.e. for the craters, etc.). I was also able to take some shots as the moon set over a tree line, posted in the following thread here on CN:

 

  https://www.cloudyni...4#entry14201812

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[james7ca]

Tonight (Saturday) I used a tracking mount to capture a better shot of the earthshine on the moon. Taken with a Nikon Z8 and a NIKKOR Z 180-600mm VR lens. Image processing with Photoshop 2025. There are additional capture details in the image captions and you can click on the below preview/thumbnail to see the full-size image as hosted here on CN (1600 x 1200 pixels).

 

In this single frame capture the brightest star, HD 86091 on the upper left, has a magnitude of +7.7 while the faintest stars are just below magnitude 11. In total, a few dozen stars are visible in the background sky.

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Edited by james7ca, 29 June 2025 - 02:59 AM.

[Toddeo]

Some images taken on 7-2-2025 with a '81 vintage orange c90 Mak. Camera is a ZWOASI178MM.

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[Toddeo]

A few more captures with a vintage "orange" C90 Mak.

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[BKBrown]

I have been doing a bit of imaging with the ZWO ASI585mc over the past week, a departure from my usual mono cam imaging. So today I can show you a few images acquired with the ASI585mc, Baader UV/IR cut L filter, and the Skywatcher Evostar 150DX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clear Skies,

Brian 

Edited by BKBrown, 04 July 2025 - 02:01 PM.

[BKBrown]

I wanted to capture the Copernicus ejecta near sunrise conditions, here is one of those results. Taken with the Skywatcher Evostar 150DX, ZWO ASI158mc camera, and a Baader UV/IR cut L filter:

 

 

And here is a shot of Mare Serenitatis from 3 July 2025 with the same rig:

 

 

Clear Skies,

Brian 

Edited by BKBrown, 08 July 2025 - 09:06 PM.

[PKDfan]

The rising Strawberry Moon on June 11th, 2025

 

Just a shot through my 6" F/5.6 refractor with the Lumix camera handheld behind the eyepiece,

 

Strawberry Moon June 11 2025 for pub.jpg

 

The seeing conditions in Erlanger Oberland have not been particularly good,

JG

 

WoW JG its a huge strawberry !!

[Dave Mitsky]

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone image of the 99.6%-illuminated Moon on Friday morning using my 6" Apertura AD6 Dob and a 24mm Explore Scientific 68-degree eyepiece.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's another one of the afocal iPhone photos that I took on Friday morning.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a mediocre hand-held afocal iPhone photo of the waning gibbous Moon that I took on Tuesday morning using my 80mm f/5 Orion ShortTube 80 achromatic refractor and 8-24mm Tele Vue Click Stop Zoom eyepiece.

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[Mikeiss]

This was a 17 panel mosaic taken back in 2017 with my then new Celestron C80ED and a Televue 2.5x Powermate along with my ASI120MC. Each panel was the best 25% of around 1,000 frames. I had to shrink it down to 52% of it's original size to meet CN guidelines so this doesn't really do it justice. 

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