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November 11, 2019

11/10/2019

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Courtesy of an iPhone . . . and a Takahashi.

A short observing session tonight on the observation deck with the FC100-DC, in temperatures cold enough to become uncomfortable after a half hour or so. 

Despite the hazy conditions and nearly full moon, I tried to get a shot of the Pleiades, then high in the sky. For once taking a picture with my iPhone worked better than taking a video (the above shot of the Moon is a frame from a video). I'm not unhappy with the result, considering it's the product of a phone (and a very good telescope, granted). 
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Not bad, considering the circumstances.

The Takahashi refractor showed some absolutely stunning details tonight on the fully illuminated parts of the Moon, especially around the around the Mare Tranquilitatis and Serenitatis with a Baader Hyperion zoom. There was the sense that you could keep on zooming in forever, with more and more detail popping into view. Even at around 200x, the view remained wonderfully bright; at times almost painfully so. 
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I always feel compelled to write: the iPhone just doesn't do justice to a Takahashi.

I closed the short evening by hunting for Uranus. Alas: no luck tonight.
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