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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's an afocal photo of the large crater Copernicus and the Montes Carpatus (the Mountains of EiN) to its left that I took on the morning of January 5th using the Naylor Observatory's 17" classical Cassegrain and my iPhone.  The seeing was less than perfect and the waning gibbous Moon was low in the sky at the time that I took the photograph.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Last night I took some hand-held afocal iPhone photographs of the Lunar V, the Lunar X, the Lunar X3, and Aries' Hoofprint, after all of these clair-obscur features were past their prime, using the Naylor Observatory's 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a close-up of the post-Lunar X.  Unfortunately, the seeing was not very good at the time.

 

 

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[Dave Mitsky]

This is one of the hand-held afocal photographs of the Lunar X that I took on Monday night using the Naylor Observatory's 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain and my iPhone.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a shot of the Lunar V and Aries' Hoofprint.

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[Dave Mitsky]

This is one of the images that I captured with my Seestar S50.

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[Dave Mitsky]

The following are some of the hand-held afocal iPhone photographs that I took on late Wednesday night/Thursday morning using a 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob, and either a 25mm Orion Plössl or a 25mm Orion Plössl with a 2x Orion Barlow lens.  The Lunar V and Lunar X were past their prime but were nevertheless still visible, along with Aries' Hoofprint and the Lunar X3.

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[Dave Mitsky]

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[Dave Mitsky]

The seeing was less than perfect and the waxing Moon was rather low in the western sky when the Lunar X began to form on Thursday night, June 13th.  However, I did manage to get a few hand-held afocal photographs of the Lunar V and the partially formed Lunar X using my 6" f/10 Celestron NexStar Evolution SCT and a 24mm Explore Scientific 68-degree eyepiece.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a cropped version of another one of my photos.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I took this shot of Copernicus and Montes Carpatus (the Mountains of EiN) last night using my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob and iPhone.  The 67.8%-illuminated Moon was partially obscured by clouds at the time.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a hand-held afocal iPhone photo that I took on Saturday prior to the driving to the Naylor Observatory to watch the occultation of Spica.  I used my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob.  The Lunar V and Lunar X occurred earlier in the day but were still prominent.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I took this hand-held afocal iPhone photo that features Copernicus and Montes Carpatus (the Mountains of EiN) on Monday night with my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob and a 17.5mm Baader Planetarium Morpheus eyepiece.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a close-up of Copernicus and Montes Carpatus (the Mountains of EiN) that I took on Tuesday night using my 6" Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dob.

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[Dave Mitsky]

This is a hand-held afocal iPhone 12 Pro Max photograph featuring Copernicus and Montes Carpatus (the Mountains of EiN) that I took using my 6" f/7.9 Apertura AD6 Dob on 2/7/25.

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