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Moon through a Questar 3.5, 5/19/10

Started by paschr9, 05/22/2010 01:09AM
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Posted 05/22/2010 01:09AM | Edited 05/22/2010 01:13AM Opening Post
Paul Schroeder
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Hi all -

Attached you will find an image I took two nights ago of the moon through my 1972 Questar 3.5 duplex. This is a mosaic of 12 separate images, where each image was captured with a Lumenera SKYnyx 2 camera, and then processed in Registax and Photoshop.

The seeing was quite good (at least for here in MN) and as such I didn't have to process the image excessively. I've found the little Questar does a fairly reasonable job on images like this one.

Any suggestions would be most welcome!

Best regards,

Paul Schroeder


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Posted 05/22/2010 09:57PM #1
Peter Glus
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Sweet shot paul.
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Posted 05/23/2010 04:02AM #2
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Beautiful shot!! Excellent detail and scale.
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Posted 05/25/2010 08:36PM #3
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Paul that's a real nice image. Good detail and very natural looking. Martin
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Posted 05/28/2010 12:40PM #4
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Very sharp. Nice processing.
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Fort Lewis Observatory: (37.238, -108.052) ~2360m (7744 ft.) elevation.
Darkness - typically 6.5+
Scope - Meade 16" LX200; f6.3 focal reducer
Focus - JMI Smart focus
Camera - SBIG ST-10XE; (~.5"/pixel)
Guiding - AO-8 and/or Meade 5"/DSI/PHD
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Posted 06/08/2010 08:58PM #5
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Very nice Paul. Very natural color and contrast--you avoided the temptation to make it bright white, congrats.
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