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Object Name: Moon ~22.5 day

Observation Info

Imaging Info

- Date/Time: 2008-01-30 / 0707 MST

- Camera: Canon XT

- Location: Fort Collins, CO

- Scope/Lens: TMB 175 f/8

- Limiting Magnitude:

 - Optical path: Prime focus
- Seeing: - Filter(s):
- Transparency: - ISO Setting/Film: ISO 100-underexposed
- Temp./Wind: - Exposure time, #: 1/200s, 1 RAW frame

NOTES:

Large craters are few but include Plato, Copernicus and Clavius.  Lots of albedo features on the Maria/Oceanus regions.  Seeing was about 3 to 4/10 with laminar texture, not granular like yesterday.  RAW to TIFF in Canon DPP, PS CS2 for brightness, curve, sharpen, denoise, sharpen, denoise.

 

Ephemeris Data:
6.6 = Libration in Latitude (B)
1.0 = Libration in Longitude (L)
182.8 = Colongitude of the Sun (Co)
-0.5 = Subsolar point Lat (Bo)
267.2 = Subsolar point Long (Lo)
-2.8 = Lunar Long of terminator
46.7% = Sunlit % of Moon's disc
107.5 = Angle of bright limb
17.4 = Angle of polar axis

 


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