6 Day Old Moon - 4/19/2002
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Apr 19, 2002 04:31-05:09 UTC- A second night in a row of clear skies (who would believe?). I am pleased with this picture. No real problems other than I forgot to level the tripod before aligning the scope. This caused the tracking to be slightly off, but it wasn't bad.
The image was created by stitching together 20 images using Paintshop Pro 7.02. Each image was created by capturing AVIs with a modified old Connectix Color QuickCam and using Vega. The AVIs were then processed using AstroStack. Each image was stacked from 40 frames from each AVI. The telescope used was a Meade LX-90 (8" SCT, f/10).
All pictures and text are Copyright (c) 2002 Tom Talbott