Full Moon with eVscope 2 (Mitche)

Full Moon with eVscope 2

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

Aargh. I wrote a lot of details about taking this image, then Astrobin reset the page and everything I wrote disappeared. The axiom I learned in my early computing days still applies. Save early; Save often. I’ll start again, but it’ll probably be less than I just spent 10 minutes writing. This time I’ll copy and save periodically so if it crashes again, I won’t have lost everything.

On the first night I took my new Unistellar eVscope 2 out, of course I had to try to image the moon, even though I knew the scope is not designed to view or image solar system objects like the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, or the Sun. But I had to try it.

I was at Windsurfer Point, on Lake Hefner, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Probably Bortle 8-9. The sky was clear, with some haze, and very light polluted. The Moon was Waning Gibbous, just one day after the Full Moon.

I used Live-View and adjusted the Gain and Exposure Time a lot, trying to get a good image. I saved about a dozen times, but only 2 were worth keeping and this is the best of the batch. I’ll try again after I’ve used the scope more and hopefully I’ll get some decent images of the solar system objects, but may have to try some post processing to improve them. In this case, The surface terrain was washed out in most of my attempts. When I made the terrain visible, the color was far from white, being the shade of brownish red you see in the image. That’s partly because it was low on the horizon I suspect. (The screen just reset and I lost everything again, but this time I had just copied everything!)

I think this is pretty good for the first time out with the scope. As I get better with the scope, I’ll post better images of the moon. If anyone has suggestions on how to get a great image of the Moon with the eVscope, I am ready and willing to be educated.

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