From: "centurion40tim" <urgent40@cybertrails.com>

Date: March 2, 2007 7:46:41 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: New Luna Image

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Milton Aupperle" <milton@...> wrote:

Beautiful. 

I'm back to my webcam and Astro IIDC after several months with a deep-space camera. 

Anyway, I want to shoot the different phases of the moon. 

Any tips on getting the moon to fit in the field of view? I am using a Celestron 9.25 prime 

focus with Unibrain webcam. The pics I am getting are too tight. 

thanks!

Tim H

Hi Folks;

I shot this last friday in the brief 2 days of clear skies that we've

had this month.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/Luna20070224MJA.jpg 

The moon was barely visible because of the overhanging balcony and I

could not see it at all in the finder scope. However there was

virtually no turbulence for 45 minutes except for brief little

"pockets" where the moon basically turned into a white "blob". I

managed to capture  my highest resolution color lunar images to date.

On the original tiff you can make out crater down to 2 to 1.5 km across.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle