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First Trial of Moon mosaic and my new camera, Björn

First Trial of Moon mosaic and my new camera

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
First Trial of Moon mosaic and my new camera, Björn

First Trial of Moon mosaic and my new camera

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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After finally receiving my new monochrome camera, I wanted to get out and try a few things. Since I've only been capturing with my DSLR or the (small size) color planetary camera up to now, there was and still is quite some learning curve to get acquainted with the new camera.

In addition, I tried to make a mosaic out of my captures and obviously you can see that I am missing a few parts from the moon (unless something didn't take a bite from it :-D ).

So this was my first trial with the new equipment. So, before you judge the image, let me add some shortcomings that I've to work on:

- Most obviously, I'm missing a part of the moon although I thought that I had covered it nicely.

- I noticed that the SCT was not well collimated (I give some blame to the capturing software tough, but I should have known better).

- Focus wasn't optimal as I had problems with the capturing software. After shooting the moon, I've figured out how to do better (use SharpCap and not Altair's "own" software).

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First Trial of Moon mosaic and my new camera, Björn

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