Copernicus Centered

June 21, 2006

Area of moon around Copernicus

The Mare in the middle of this image (above Copernicus) is Mare Imbrium. Several other craters are also obvious.

Images taken with TEC-140 using 4x Televue Powermate and 1.6x Maxpower II. Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus with Powermate and focal extender.

Five 1/200 sec exposures aligned and stacked with Photoshop CS

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