Νότιος Πόλος με ευνοική λίκνιση, 15-7-2009

Wow! This turned out exceptionally well. Looks like optics, collimation and seeing were all working in unison for you that evening.

-Fred

Actually, it was dawn (around 03.00 UT) here in Greece. The original jpegs had already a blueish hue, however, the seeing and the transparency were just fantastic. Quite unusual for Thessaloniki where the observing conditions this year were nerve-breaking!

It had to be so because that morning there was an extraordinary favourable libration of the SW part of the Moon's disk. In this photo you can find many details of the lunar farside that are rarely seen. I wish that astrophographers in the Americas captured the SW limb some hours later, when libration was even more extreme, more than 8 degrees in latitude!

As for the optics, an experienced fellow from the local astronomy club told me the other day that the optics needed a bit of collimation but I'm not into experimenting with it at the moment.

I, too, enjoyed the result; it is more than I expected from my setup, however, Fred, the most enjoyable part was observing the Moon under these fine conditions with a big Mak and a binoviewer...simply jawdropping...

Μπράβο Κώστα!

Η συγκεκριμένη φωτό είναι απλά τέλεια.

Οξύτητα, λεπτομέρεια, όμορφο καδράρισμα, και υπέροχο τοπίο..

Και πάλι μπράβο!