Typical Digital BYA Lunar Work

Excellent afocal* photos of the moon are possible with a our Orion 4 1/2" Dobsonian telescopes and a digital camera.  The class camera is a Canon A580 camera (and some A560's). (Previously we used Fuji digital cameras).

• Penny Hauser (2003).  The first with our Orion 4 1/2" Dobsonian's.  My best recollection is that the camera was a Fuji Finepix 3 megapixel camera, circa early 2003.
  • Waning Gibbous Moon
  • Waxing Crescent Moon (low in the sky and yellowed by atmospheric dust)
     
• Rachel Herndon (2006).  Class camera (Fuji) and scope.  Excellent shots; minor unsharp mask sharpening added by FWK.
  • First Quarter Moon (10-29-06)
  • Waning Gibbous Moon (12-9-06)
     
• Jerad Childress (2006).  Class camera (Fuji) and scope.  Substantial contrast adjustment by FWK.
  • Full Moon
     
• Levi Eads (2006).  Class (Fuji) camera and scope.
  • Waxing Gibbous Moon
     

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