Object: The Moon past Last Quarter
Exposure: 1/125th 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/18mm Radian eyepiece.
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: none
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Date: 08/12/01, 2:20am PDT.
Comments: Taken during moderate seeing, 5 on a 1-10 scale.
This image is the first afocal image done with the new TeleVue Radian digital camera adapter.