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After testing some settings changes on my Mallincam on this near full Moon Friday evening, 9 January 2009, I decided to try my hand at capturing some images of our closest neighbor. The moon was so bright, even with the Mallincam’s shutter set at 1/12,000, I still needed to cut the moon’s brightness with a polarizing filter set to filter about 50% of the moon’s light. The detail seen on my CRT monitor was amazing. This experience has rekindled my desire to study the moon in greater detail. The full view of the moon was captured with my Orion ST120, while the closeups were captured with the 10-inch LX200.

Click on photos below for larger view.
On resulting images - move cursor along either right or left side to activate Prev/Next option.
Remember - Magnified images are mirror images because of view through LX200 (SCT).

Near full moon over Vegas

Northeastern Seas

Sea of Serenity

Crater Copernicus

Crater Tycho

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