Waxing Gibeous Moon

A mosaic of 6 frames of the moon on the 21st of April 2005 made inthe prime focus of a 40cm f/10 Cassegrain telescope. A higherresolution version is available http://users.skynet.be/vangorp/photos/2005_04_21-mosaic_2000.jpg">here. Thank you for looking and for any comments you'd like to make.

Wonderful! ...sez me in admiration.

7/6

Great Shot! Wow...

Its a really great moon Shot Koen. 7/6

 

DK.

Excellent job.

Very nice !

i just discovered it's not possible to delete a comment .. sorry for this one .. :-(

are you sure this is 40cm? so this is 400mm right? or is it 4000mm .. 400cm ?? or ... I cannot calculate! I took one too, with my 135mm and a 2x teleconverter which makes a 135x2x1.5=405mm for the D70, so .. equal your telescope? but mine is not to compare with the result you got ..
you can see here: http://photos8.flickr.com/10421139_2655de734f_s.jpg

 

thanks for sharing .. amazing picture ;-)

The telescope has 40cm diameter and a focal ratio f/10, thus 4000mm focal distance. It should be possible to obtain higher resolution images but atmospheric turbulence was quite bad that evening. I like your photo, nice result!

 

Koen

Oke, thanks for the exlpanation .. your photo is really stunnig ... never seen the moon this way ... great!!

 

uhhh .. why not make a flickr account and post a pic of the telescope?? would be lovely to see :-) .. flickr is free ..

It's even easier, there already is a picture of the telescope available on the net :-) On the website of Public Observatory Urania, of which I am a member. There are two telescopes in the image, the large black/grey one was used to produce this image, the little one on top was used to do the image of Orion.

good detail + sharpness

This was magnificent.. How did you manage this? Extraordinary sharpness..!! Exellent!! Congratulations on superb work!!! 7/7

Thanks. You might want to check out Technical Details :) Basicly I used a telescope with a 4000mm focal distance and took 6 exposures to make a mosaic.

This is one of the best treatments of the gibbous moon that I have ever seen.  The detail is splendid.

--Lannie