The Full Moon Rising
May 24th, 2013

Uploaded 5/26/13

Here is a set of images we took of the full moon - not the best time to shoot this object because of the lack of shadow detail - from our balcony a few nights ago. The moon was only 10 - 15 degrees up and the seeing was wavering rapidly. But the cloud situation is getting worse every year and we have to take advantage of what we get. So here are some full field shots at prime focus, which gets about 1/3 the moon at a time on our DMK51 planetary camera, followed by some not quite as sharp close ups with the 2x Barlow flipped in. Later on that evening we did get the best shot of Saturn so far with this instrument, so there were some highlights as well tonight. These are all for fun, hope you enjoy them!

 

      


  




2x Barlow shots:




Note in this image below the Alpine valley is just a linear dark streak!  



  

      



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