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Full Moon November 2005 1000x1000 pixels

Full Moon November 2005 4000x5000 pixels

This image was captured from my driveway in Monroeville.
I used my Celestron 11 inch SCT at prime focus (2800 mm focal length).
It was mounted on my CGE mount. The image was captured with my former
Canon Digital Rebal camera. It took six images that were stitched together
to produce the final image. Each exposure was 1/800 second.
The exposure was low to avoid saturation in the brightest areas.
I took three of each subimage and selected the best.

The previous July I thought I had got my image. The full moon was in the morning so I went out the night before. However, I miscalculated and went out a day earlier. It was only after assembling the image, that I looked at it and realized that the moon was not yet full. Almost Full Moon

This is another one that was not quite full. It is different because I used the C11 with the f6.3 focal reducer so the entire moon fit into the picture. In this case, even though I used the histogram on the camera to check the exposure, it was still a bit overexposed, because the histogram only shows the combined color, not the individual channels. I sharpened this image a little more, also. Another Almost Full Moon