Tuesday, 17 December 2013

The Full Moon


 
We've reached the Full Moon. I took the photographs early evening and the Moon was low down in the east. I got my telescope out which is really for watching wildlife. It is a refracting telescope but does get to 40x magnification. At first the camera was over-exposing as in the first image. Far too many photons were hitting the CCD in the camera which removed any detail. I shortened the exposure time to get this image with better contrast.