The Moon on Sept 4
The Moon at lunation 22.54 days. Not being a ‘morning’ person, I tend to not image the Moon much after its full phase. I should though, the air tends to be steadier here around 3-4 am and its usually clear as well. Its been cloudy in the evening here a lot lately as well — hence the motivation to get out of bed at 3am and take an image or two.
Image taken from Louisville, CO at 05:55 am MDT with Celestron Nexstar 11 telescope, F6.3 focal reducer, and Canon Xti camera. Camera settings were ISO 400, 1/640 sec exposure. Aligned and stacked 32/40 frames with Registax4 (wavelet layer 1 at 8, layer 2 at 6). The sky was clear, temperature was 59°F, 0-1 mph wind, transparency was excellent, and turbulence varied from 5 to 6.