Object: The great crater Copernicus
Exposure: 1/15th second
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 800 digital camera, 1600x1200pixel CCD array.
Processing: Minor enhancement in Adobe Photoshop 6.0
Telescope: Afocal coupling using a TeleVue 102mm f/8.6 APO refractor and a TeleVue Radian digital camera adapter w/3mm Radian eyepiece.
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: none
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Date: 08/12/01, 2:35am PDT.
Comments: Taken during moderate seeing, 5 on a 1-10 scale.
Other craters visible in this image are Eratosthenes(right center), Pytheas(top right) and Reinhold and Lansberg(lower left). The Carpatus Mountains are also visible directly above Copernicus.
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© Chris Cook 2001