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 Assembling
            9 high resolution images taken with a Televue 2x barlow and my
            12.5" was a substantial effort, but resulted in this fairly
            sharp lunar portrait. The larger image will let you see more
            clearly the different lunar features. This is essentially an
            LRGB of the moon - the individual close up frames with the barlow
            were desaturated to black and white for easier matching of seams
            along the frame edges. Then, an image taken with no barlow that
            captured the entire moon was used for the subtle color data.
            
Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  Hutech Modified Canon XTi @ ISO400
Exposure:  1/250
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  35F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Maxim DL, Canon RAW
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