Aristarchus crater on the Moon as seen through a Meade Lightbridge 16 inch applying a 170mm diaphragm to improve resolution under not very good seeing conditions.
Registax , Aristarchus, Crater, Meade, Lighbridge, 16 inch, large, telescope, Dobson, Moon, Solar System, 2011, night, sky, space, astronomy, science, astrophotography
Wow! Awesome image from the frames captured! Much higher magnification than I've achieved with my 10" newt (the seeing never seems good enough here to be able to use my 5x Powermate, so have to make do with 2x barlow).
nudenut 10 months ago
Loving the face on the diaphragm. Can this technique be applied to other easily seen objects? I see it used a lot on the Moon or even the Sun, but I never heard of it being used on, say Jupiter. Great work as always :)
TelescopeAtNight 10 months ago