November 11, 2024

Waxing Crescent Moon – 9/12/2021 7:30pm EDT

Waxing Crescent Moon – 9/12/2021 7:30pm EDT

Telescope: LXD75 SC8 @ f/6.3, LX65 mount

Camera: Canon 600Da

Filter: GSO IR Blocking Filter

Exposure: 16×1/500 sec, ISO 1600, saved as RAW

Seeing: Fair, 3/5

Software: Backyard EOS, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Photoshop

This was a quick peek at the moon taken as part of an imaging test using my LX65. This particular test was to determine whether I could frame the entire moon in a single field using a 0.63x focal reducer/field flattener. The source images were taken manually using a simple remote switch and the mirror lock-up function to work around vibrations from the DSLR’s mirror retracting. The sky was thick with haze which gave the moon a bit of an odd color, so I separated the image into its red, green, and blue panes and selected the blue data set for the final monochrome image.