Nearly Full Moon Rising

Winter Moon

Uploaded 12/3/06

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 The yellowish tawny moon rose tonight, nearly full. We set up the Stellarvue up on the balcony for some moonrise shooting tonight and were rewarded with this view, a lunar disk 2 days before full. It was nice to get out and do some astroimaging even with such a full moon.
Instrument: Stellarvue SV80S Refractor w/Televue 2x Big Barlow, EFR = 80mm f/9.5 @ 758mm EFL Platform: Televue GEM Camera: Canon 10D @ ISO400 Exposure: 1/180 x 6 Filters: Standard IR Block Location: Payson, Arizona Elevation: 5150 ft. Sky: Seeing 4/10, Transparency 6/10 Outside Temperature: 40F Processing Tools: Photoshop CS2, Raw Shooter Premium HOME GALAXIES EMISSION NEBS REFLECTION NEBS COMETS GLOBULARS OPEN CLUST PLANETARIES LINKS FastCounter by bCentral