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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Experimental Lunar Images through the C5
- 01 November 2009 -

It's been very cloudy and rainy of recent, and I have had no opportunities to put the C5 and 63.5 mm finderscope through it's paces. This first day of November, it was kinda clear...so I spent about an hour taking some experimental shots.

The finderscope is very picky, being that it wants it's focal point precise, and using a camera in it's present configuration just won't cut it. It's focus is either too long...or too short...not extending far enough out - or with a diagonal on, not retracting enough in... I need to craft some sort of adapter to use the Canon Powershot S3 on it.

But, the C5 gladly accepts the camera with a T-mount. Red Dot Laser needs a bump in calibration I found out...

But the shots are acceptable using a wide field 25mm...

Using the Tungsten setting, I zoomed in with the camera, catching the sunrise lunar limb.

Using a more normal white balance, some shots of the interior, but the lunarscape was rather washed out, as we near full Moon tomorrow.

Later on in the early morning, whilst taking out the garbage...I noticed a very nice Lunar Halo from the thickening passing clouds and took some shots at 2:30 am.....

With the bare limbed trees of my backyard, it all had a very spooky, yet serene feel.