85% Gibbous Moon - 13th January

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85% Gibbous Moon - 13th January

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Following on from Tuesday clear skies and chance to do some lunar imaging, we had a 'record' 3rd day in a row of clear blue skies associated with high pressure. I was keen to get back from work and get the LZOS 100/800 scope out again and have a go with the 85% gibbous moon. Starting off visually and straight away it was apparent seeing was much better than on tuesday. First off the full(?) disk taken with the grasshopper camera:

Image85%-Gibbous-Moon by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Looking a little closer I used the APM 1.6x telecentric and the ZWO290mm camera.

ImageSinus-Iridium by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ImageSouth-Pole by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Pleased with these, I think are my best lunar images to date!

Hope you like.

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Re: 85% Gibbous Moon - 13th January

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These are really cracking Mark, you have a new lunar hobby :)

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Re: 85% Gibbous Moon - 13th January

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Very nice, Mark. My seeing last night wasn’t really good enough for high quality close views.

You’ve captured some nice details in these.

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Thanks Alexandra and Stu. I'm really pleased with this new scope, visually there has been oodles to see. Here's one more from the evening.

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Mark,

Those are really terrific!

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Thanks Kevin!


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