November 16, 2023
New Scope, New Camera, New Quality
Originally published November 1, 2013
image by Robert Reeves, San Antonio, Texas
For several days in late October, the poor summer skies were swept away by a front that gave me three consecutive mornings of great seeing. The attached image was taken the morning of Oct 23, 2013. When dew shut me down the previous night, I left the scope and camera as is and closed the observatory. On the morning of the 23rd, I woke the scope up and pointed it at the Moon and the attached scene was the first thing I saw on my laptop screen. The exposure and focus were perfect as is from the previous day, all I did was click the "record" button. I am delighted at my good fortune in capturing Rima and Rupes Cauchy with my new C-11 and Skyris 274M. I have stalked these features for years with my old C-8 and DMK camera, but circumstances always showed these features as mere scratches on the Moon. This new C-11 image finally does the region justice!
Robert Reeves
Planet 26591 Husband of Planet 26592
Technical Details
Oct 23, 2013. Best 300 of 2000 frames taken through a Celestron 11 Edge HD, 2.5X Powermate, and Skyris 274M camera. Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, and CS3.
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