| NOTES |
DATE:
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Saturday,
October 15, 2005
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TIME:
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10:14
pm EDT
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CAMERA:
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Canon
EOS 300D Digital Rebel |
EXPOSURE:
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1/250
second @ ISO 100
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LOCATION:
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Owl
Observatory - Kalamazoo
Nature Center
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INSTRUMENT:
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Meade
12"
LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain @ f/6.3 with Lumicon Giant Easy Guider
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PROCESSING:
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Two
images combined with Canon PhotoStitch. Unsharp masking, levels
and curves adjusted with Adobe Photoshop 7. |
COMMENTS:
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The
Waxing Gibbous Moon is about 1.5 days away from being Full.
I couldn't fit the entire image of the Moon onto the CMOS chip of the
Canon 300D, so I had to take two separate images and combine
them. One of the minor drawbacks of the DSLR as compared with
35mm film.
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![[Waxing Gibbous Moon]](images/moon/wgm101505.jpg)