This is the first clear night we’ve had this year for me to take some image of our Moon and it’s an eleven-day-old waxing gibbous, taken on the 10th January 2017. At the moment it's so hot here in Australia with daytime temperatures at 35 degrees Celsius and night time temperatures hovering around 25 degrees!
The ejecta material from the large craters Tycho, Copernicus & Kepler can be seen quite clearly at this phase, you can also see the very bright rim of the crater Aristarchus just coming into view on the terminator line in the full disc image below:
The ejecta material from the large craters Tycho, Copernicus & Kepler can be seen quite clearly at this phase, you can also see the very bright rim of the crater Aristarchus just coming into view on the terminator line in the full disc image below:
Images were taken with an APO 127mm refractor telescope and a Canon 700D camera. For the close up image, a 2x barlow lens was used, but for the full disc I used the telescope at prime focus.
There were 10 images each stacked in Registax6 and processed in PS CS4, exposures for full lunar disc were 1/640th second and ISO200, for the close up with 2x Barlow lens, exposures 1/640th second and ISO400.
There were 10 images each stacked in Registax6 and processed in PS CS4, exposures for full lunar disc were 1/640th second and ISO200, for the close up with 2x Barlow lens, exposures 1/640th second and ISO400.
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