Object: Lunar terminator nearing Last Quarter
Exposure: 1/30th second
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 800 digital camera, 1600x1200pixel CCD array.
Processing: Minor enhancement in Adobe Photoshop 6.0
Telescope: TeleVue 102mm f/8.6 APO refractor coupled w/TeleVue 4x Powermate and 26mm Plossl eyepiece yielding an effective magnification of 135x.
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: none
Location: Laguna Niguel, California
Date: 12/17/00, 1:19am PST.
Comments: Taken during moderate seeing, 5-6 on a 1-10 scale.
This image shows many interesting features including part of Mare Nubium(bottom), "The Straight Wall"(near bottom center), craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel, Albategnius(left center) and Tycho(lower right).
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