The temperature was somewhere around 29 degrees. The sky was clear, and tonight was a full moon. After reading countless blogs what are the best settings for taking photos of the moon and other planets, I really wanted to try it out again. I put on two jackets, a pair of gloves and set up the scope and camera.
I was able to find the software that lets you control the camera from a computer. This let me snap the photos and do other adjustments without shaking and bumping the scope around.
I also learned how to fine tune the exposure times so that objects like the moon are not to bright. When using the camera to look at the moon through a 2X barlo lens I can see quite a bit of detail. This however leave me with small chopped up pictures of the moon. I took several of these pictures making sure to cover the entire moon and used paint.net to stitch them together.
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