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.
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