Waxing Gibbous Moon (Craters and Mare) - 15/10/2013 (Processed stack)

The surface of The Moon contains smooth dark areas named 'Mare', Latin for Seas. They are not water filled but instead lava infill regions after very large impacts in the first billion years of the Moon's existence. The far side of The Moon has far fewer such areas as it received a much higher bombardment than the side that faces the Earth.

Captured in Backyard EOS Planetary 5X mode. Post processed using Registax6 to align best 20% of 500 frames. Further processed with Adobe Phtoshop CS5.

Telescope - Bintel BT200 f/4.0 Newtonian (borrowed from Stephen Boyd) with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 64' x 95', Ambient 13C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Teleskop Service OAG9 Off Axis Guider with Starlight Xpress Superstar (mono) CCD guide camera and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.

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