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M42 on Stellarvue AT1010

The instrument was reviewed here

  • Location: Ghiro observatory
  • Instrument: Stellarvue AT1010
  • Camera: Canon 20D
  • Processing: Dss, Iris, Photoshop
  • Img 70x40sec @800iso
  • 35 Dark (no flat,bias)
This photo was taken during a PEM correction procedure, in the meanwhile why not try to take some shoots?
This the result, the moon, almost full was very near to the subject. This cheaper instrument works well, the main pain point is its  curved focal plane, bottom a detail of the angles before the cropping.

Clavius crater

Clavius is for sure one of the most photographed subjects on the moon, 230Km of diameter it is dedicated to Christopher Clavius a mathematician of XV century. It appears stretched due to his meridian position and it is one of the oldest know craters.