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The Moon, Douwe79

The Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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This shot was a bit of a lucky one. I had a time frame of about 5 min to shoot this image between my neighbours houses. Framing the shot with my EQ6 mount had to be done manually since automatic slewing to target was somehow not working. I tried to focus on Arcturus, which according to Stallarium was in the eastern sky, but my mount insisted that it was in the western sky...then my mount thought the moon hadn't risen yet, but my eyes could see it had!

Then I had to rush with focusing my DSLR but luckily enough it worked. 30 seconds later I took a second shot and the moon had already disappeared for 50 % behind the houses. But I got the shot haha.

I found shooting the moon fun because there was no Polar alignment or guiding to worry about.

CS !

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The Moon, Douwe79