Lunar Terminator

This is my first attempt at a lunar portrait consisting of several digital images. It was made on March 11, 2003 using a handheld Olympus 3020 digital camera, an Astro-Physics 155mm EDT refractor, and an 8mm TeleVue Radian eyepiece. The seeing was of the sort that makes things wave around without blurring all fine detail. This plus the hand-held camera made it difficult to merge the borders of the images. Also, the focus on the topmost section isn't quite there. I tried stacking frames to improve sharpness, but the rotation of the hand-held camera plus the variations caused by seeing made that impossible.


Image copyright by Joe Bergeron.