Waxing Crescent Moon – 6-20-2026, 22h30m EDT, Vintage Celestron C14
Telescope: 1978 Vintage C14 at f/11
Camera: Canon EOS Ra, GSO IR Filter
Exposure: 3x(64×1/500sec), ISO 3200, saved as RAW
Seeing: Fair, 3/5
Software: Backyard EOS, Autostakkert, Nebulosity, MSR ICE, Registax, Photoshop
This is a 3 panel mosaic of the waxing crescent moon taken with my recently restored vintage 1978 Celestron C14 in its stock configuration. Taking the source images was pretty straight forward. I set the focus using Spica and a homemade 16” Bahtinov mask, framed each panel using the live view within Backyard EOS, and then acquired a 64 image set for each field. Easy peasy.