New Moon
by Mike Hankey, under Lunar
New Moon May 2nd, 2009
I shot this a month ago today but just got around to posting it now. I used a f/6 focal reducer when I took this picture. The focal reducer didn’t work very well on other DSO’s as it left a nasty vignetting problem on the pictures. Its an ok accessory for when you want to have a wider field of view, but I don’t think its very good for imaging. It did work out pretty well for the moon though, without it I can’t get the full moon into the frame due to the high powered zoom. The adapter basically reduces the zoom by 40%.
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July 10th, 2009 on 9:41 pm
Amazing photo… this is my favorite of yours so far
this is Celestial, Ivey’s girlfriend. JoJo lead me here to see your meteor find! wow!! I’m impressed!!! Let me know if you ever get into the Celestial Sphere images… I don’t know much about how they are all done, but if you’re interested in seeing one and the instructional I think you can find it with my favorite photo so far here – http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto/basics/Celestial_Coordinates.html
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