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Douglas Rollain

Southern Milkyway (Canon t1i)

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Moonrise image

Moonrise

Contains: Solar system body or event
Acquisition Details
  • Number of frames:   8
  • FPS:
  • Focal length:   250mm
  • CMI/CMII/CMIII:
Description

I have been looking for a way to take a time-lapse of a moon rise or set with no overlap or gap between images. It isn't as simple as using a two minute interval. The moon's motion eastward is .55 arc seconds per minute, plus the moon's apparent size can vary by about 4 arc minutes. After some calculations I arrived at: interval = moon's apparent diameter in seconds / 13.9. This produced an image with slight overlap. I reduced the divisor and after some trial and error, I found that using a divisor of 13.55 worked well enough. This image was made with a William Optics RedCat on a fixed tripod using an intervalometer.