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    Waxing Crescent

    Waxing Crescent

    Two-day-old waxing crescent

    • Telescope: Stellarvue SVA130T-IS
    • Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini 2 controller
    • Autoguiding: No
    • Optical Configuration: 2x Barlow (f/14)
    • Camera: Canon 60Da
    • Light Frames: Single frame, 1/125-sec. exposure
    • Calibration: None (no darks, no flats, no biases)
    • Exposure Time: 1/125 sec.
    • ISO: 1250
    • Processing: Photoshop CC
    • Imaging Location: Sierra Nevada Mountains (Altitude: 8,600 ft)

    This two-day-old waxing crescent of the Moon was shot while waiting for darkness to fall in the High Sierra.

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    “First Light:” A Waxing Gibbous

    Waxing Gibbous

    The first image taken with my newly pimped-out, 50-year-old, 8-inch Newtonian--hand-built back in the day. The telescope is now equipped with a computerized GOTO drive and auto-guiding system with a Canon 60Da DSLR camera. This image was taken at prime focus. (See below for full-resolution link.)

    [For a full-resolution image, click on this link: Waxing Gibbous.]

    • Telescope: Custom-built 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
    • Camera: Canon 60Da
    • Shutter speed: 1/100 s
    • ISO: 400
    • Processing: Registax 6, Gimp
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