4 Day Old Moon - 1/7/2003

Jan 7, 2003 01:24-01:38 UTC - Despite the Moon only being 23 degrees above the horizon and general seeing being very poor, I decided to go ahead and shoot this picture. I just couldn't pass up a clear night in January. Consequently, I'm not as happy with the sharpness of the large version of the image, but it is still a nice moon to look at.

The image was created by stitching together 17 images using Paintshop Pro 7.04. Each image was created by capturing AVIs with a Philips Vesta 690k and using K3CCDTools. I preprocessed each image using Registax, stacking 40+ frames. The telescope used was a Meade LX-90 (8" SCT, f/10).

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