By Nancy Shaffer | 2022-02-20
On 02/15/2022 11:53 pm by Jean-François GELY| Observatory of Saint-Veran / Hautes-Alpes / France
The moon in my hands
You have certainly already observed a solar eclipse in projection; that is, the telescope was pointed at the Sun and its light was projected onto a white sheet or sheet.
Personally, I had never done this for the Moon before; at least I hadn't given enough time to it.
That evening, a few hours before the Full Moon of February 16, 2022, I decided to point the famous 62cm telescope of the Saint-Véran observatory at the Moon and I put a 100mm eyepiece there.
The telescope, with a focal length of 9 meters, then benefited from a 90x zoom. This allowed me to have the entire Moon; rather a representation of the moon.
A little patience to achieve the development of the projection on the wooden board and we obtain a 70cm Moon on the wooden board.
Projection of the moon : a 62cm diameter telescope.
Photo :
Canon 6D defiltred + Samyang lens 24mm f/1.4 on tripod.
Exposure : 8 seconds.
ISO : 1600.
F/2.8.
Soft use : Lightroom and Topaz Denoise.