Derby and District Astronomical Society
The Moon - 18 days old
Brian Dodson captured this image of the Moon on the 23rd September 2013 at 01:07 BST using a Canon 300D camera attached to the prime focus of his 5" Explore Scientific triplet refractor. The exposure time was 1/640th of a sec. The tones have been enhanced slightly on Registax. |
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Chris Newsome took this picture of the Moon at around 03:15 am on the 14th July 2006. Chris used a Canon EOS 300D camera at the prime focus of a Celestron C8-NGT telescope. The image is composed of ten 1/200th second exposures at 200 ASA (raw format). These were combined in MaximDL, processed in CS2 (greyscale, levels, curves,high passs and overlay) and converted to JPEG. |
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The waning gibbous Moon photographed through the 10-inch f/8 reflector at the Flamsteed Observatory on the 14th September 2003 by Mike Lancaster. An Olympus Camedia C4000Z digital camera was held up to a 40 mm eyepiece using a neutral density moon filter. |
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