These pictures of the moon are pretty small with low resolution. The telescope and camera I have can do better than this, but it is pretty hard to know when the image is in focus the way I have it set up now. So hopefully I will be able to put some better pictures than these in the future.
All of these were taken with my Orion StarMax 102mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope (1300mm focal length or f/12.7) on an EQ-2 equatorial mount with motor drive, with a Cannon AE-1 mounted directly to the telescope using 35 mm film.
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Date: March 9, 2003 Time: ~8:30pm EST Subject: The Moon Exposure: 1/30 sec Film: 100 sp. print Angular width (arcmin): 48 Notes: 40% full, waxing |
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Date: March 16, 2003 Time: ~12:30am EST Subject: The Moon Exposure: 1/30 sec Film: 100 sp. print Angular width (arcmin): 48 Notes: 93% full, waxing |