Last night I took a few photos of the crescent Moon, Venus, and Jupiter with a Sony DSC-S600 point-and-shoot digital camera and then set up one of my quick-look scopes, a 6" f/8 Orion XT6 Dob. My wife, her mother, and two neighbors eventually viewed the members of last night's celestial trio at 48x.
At higher magnifications, the young crescent Moon easily displayed two of my favorite "early" lunar features - a formation of hills to the north of Cleomedes that resembles a physician's reflex hammer or a tomahawk and the Lobster Claw, aka Crater Gutenberg.
Dave Mitsky
At higher magnifications, the young crescent Moon easily displayed two of my favorite "early" lunar features - a formation of hills to the north of Cleomedes that resembles a physician's reflex hammer or a tomahawk and the Lobster Claw, aka Crater Gutenberg.
Dave Mitsky
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
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Ah,yes!! Gutenberg's "lobster claw" is also one of my favorites !! 