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Old 11-January-2006, 10:18 AM
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This pretty much reaches the limit of what I can accomplish afocally. Wish I could get a smoother focus across the entire field.

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91% waxing gibbous
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Old 11-January-2006, 10:37 AM
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Great detail on the terminator
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Yeah, looks great to me. Took me a minute to get oriented, but it's a neat image - some major craters very well delineated.
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Good job, looks great!
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Default Luna redux.
Silly me, I'm never satisfied.

I managed to reduce the vignetting a tad and also got out earlier tonight, catching the Moon around zenith transit. Might have overprocessed the first shot so I added a second, toned down a skosh.

95% disk illumination
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Whoops, almost forgot the bonus material.

Right after snapping the above, a gorgeous lunar halo appeared. It was all I could do to frame it, even pulling back to 17mm:





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More great ones.

On the leftmost of the two pics you posted tonight there is a big notch about 10 o'clock? is that part of a crater wall or a product of the procesing? It seems like it should be a real surface feature but that's a pretty big chunk.

Also on the Moon halo: We've got a local weatherma here who knows a lot of the Native American weather lore. If he's right, you'll get a big storm within 3 days.
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A trick of lighting between Babbage and Herschel B more than anything else -- the added contrast in the first image just magnifies the effect. You can see the similar "notch" here.

A storm would be most welcome. We need the rain badly.
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Silly me, I'm never satisfied.

I managed to reduce the vignetting a tad and also got out earlier tonight, catching the Moon around zenith transit. Might have overprocessed the first shot so I added a second, toned down a skosh.
I wish you wouldn't keep using those technical terms - we laymen can't understand you.
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Really really nice.....





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Crisp as iceberg lettuce. Great imaging.

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