EricWP

By EricWP

Lunar Close-Up - First Go!

This morning, in between the clouds, I tried to photograph the Moon through the eyepiece of my telescope. This telescope is quite small and not too expensive - a Startravel 100 - my favourite as it is easy to move around. I bought a adaptor that connected my 58mm filter thread on the Fuji to a clamp that went around the eyepiece. unfortunately with the wind and the clouds it was difficult to focus, but this is my first attempt with this method, though I have tried before just holding a simple camera up to the eyepiece. Next attempt, a lower magnification eyepiece with a wider field of view, because I anyway have to zoom in to get inside the circle of the eyepiece, which in this case is visible in the upper left of the picture. I hope the next attempt will be sharper!
The south-west edge of the Moon is visible in this picture.

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