Perigee Moon on 1st Jan 2018
Tonight's perigee full Moon is the largest of 2018. It lies at only 356565 km (compared with about 400000 km average) and covers an angle across the sky of 33.51 arcminutes diameter compared with 30 arcminutes (half a degree) normally.
This is the best 50% of frames from a 5000 frame video recorded at 2.071ms exposure per frame.
Stacked in AutoStakkert! 3.0 with Gaussian wavelet enhancement in Registax 6.0
William Optics ZenithStar 71 mm aperture refractor telescope, 420 mm focal length f/5.9 with blue filter. Ioptron ZEQ25GT tracking mount.
ZWO ASI174 mm CMOS camera
I have acquired red and green data and will try to combine into a full colour RGB image later.
Perigee Moon on 1st Jan 2018
Tonight's perigee full Moon is the largest of 2018. It lies at only 356565 km (compared with about 400000 km average) and covers an angle across the sky of 33.51 arcminutes diameter compared with 30 arcminutes (half a degree) normally.
This is the best 50% of frames from a 5000 frame video recorded at 2.071ms exposure per frame.
Stacked in AutoStakkert! 3.0 with Gaussian wavelet enhancement in Registax 6.0
William Optics ZenithStar 71 mm aperture refractor telescope, 420 mm focal length f/5.9 with blue filter. Ioptron ZEQ25GT tracking mount.
ZWO ASI174 mm CMOS camera
I have acquired red and green data and will try to combine into a full colour RGB image later.