Copernicus by AstronomyMan

Photography • Space • posted on Feb 16, 2006

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The Crater Copernicus (on the moon). Taken with an 8" Reflecting scope and a ToUcam webcam. The moon is 240000 miles away. The setup I was using was set at a magnification of 600x. So this picture is equivalent to flying just 400 miles from the surface of the moon.

Comments (7)

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BigDen

11:09AM | Thu, 16 February 2006

Fantastic, I can't wait to get my ETX-125 setup and have a clear night for viewing.

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jcv2

1:48PM | Thu, 16 February 2006

Wow, a magnification of 600 times is fantastic to see the details of the moon! Excellent work, breathtaking! :)

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AstronomyMan

2:28PM | Thu, 16 February 2006

For those interested, the crater shown here is visible on my post from yesterday as a large white lumpy crater in front of the young lady's nose (Moon and Venus). It looks very different here because it was on the very edge of the lit portion of the moon, that is, it was approaching evening with very long shadows.

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