Andolfato's Astrofotography: 2012

IC - 4628 - The Prawn Nebula

July 2012 - 20x240sec - ISO 800

Telescope: Orion Premium 102mm Refractor - Camera: Canon T2i Baader modded - Mount: CG-5GT

Guiding: Celestron TravelScope 70 - DBK41AU02.AS

Sun in June 30 2012 with a DBK 41AU02.AS

Telescope: ED 102mmF7 (PST - CER-F 90mm)

Câmera: DBK 41AU04.AS

Mount: CG-5GT

Great solar eruption in June 30 2012

Telescope: ED 102mmF7 (PST - CER-F 90mm)

Câmera: DMK21AU04.AS

Mount: CG-5GT

M8 - Lagoon Nebula with a Imaging Source DMK41AU02.AS

Jun 2012 - 70x65sec

Telescope: Orion Premium 102mm Refractor - Câmera: DBK41AU02.AS - Mount: CG-5GT

Guiding: No

The Sun in May 05 2012

Telescope: ED 102mmF7 (PST - CER-F 90mm)

Câmera: DMK21AU04.AS

Mount: CG-5GT

Super moon of May 5 2012

Apr 2012

Telescope: Orion Premium ED 102mm - Camera:Canon T2i - Mount: CG-5GT

Capture Software: EOS Movie Recorder

Stacking: Registax 5.1

Mosaic of 6 images jointed in Fitswork

The moon with a DMK21AU04.AS

Apr 2012

Telescope: Orion Premium ED 102mm - Camera: Imaging Source DMK21AU04.AS - Mount: CG-5GT

Photo of Crater Copernicus on the Moon

Crater Copernicus through a Refractor Telescope Orion Premium 102mm ED with a Canon EOS T2I and a 2x barlow.

Yesterday I tried to take some pictures of the moon with greater zoom. I focused mainly on the crater Copernicus, which was fantastic close to the terminator of the moon. The moon terminator is the area between day and night, where the surface details are highlighted by shadows generated by light beating side.

The result was the image you can see above, the result of five photos processed in Registax 5.1. In terms of capturing the details, this is my best photo of a specific area of the Moon so far, but I hope to get better pictures using more frames, programming the camera to take multiple pictures in a row, something I did not do yesterday.

The crater Copernicus is located northwest of the center of the hemisphere of the visible face of the Moon Due to its relative youth in terms of astronomy, it remains in the same primitive form in which it was formed. Its edge has a circular hexagonal shape especially.

Due largely to its recent formation, the crater floor was not flooded with lava. The terrain along the bottom of it is wrinkled in the south and softer towards the north. The peaks existing in its center, consists of three separate chains together, rising about 1.2 km from the ground. separated from each other by valleys.

The crater Copernicus is about 90km in diameter. In the photo below I put beside it the Federal District of Brazil, which has roughly the same size crater.