Mare Crisium – 5/7/2011 1h 30m UT

Telescope: Meade LXD75 AR6 @ f/16
Camera: Meade DSI Pro III
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS2 (IR Pre-filter), Meade imaging green
Exposure: 65x0.1sec
Software: Envisage, Registax 6, Photoshop Elements

This was a quick test of my AR-6 using a 2x Barlow. The seeing wasn’t the best and I didn’t have time to check the focus using a reference star and my Bahtinov mask, but this shows promise for being able to do some nice high resolution imaging with a large achro. Once the moon moves a bit farther along and I have more time before it heads into the trees I hope to try an RGB color image.

-John

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