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Old September 24th 08, 04:05 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy,sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Copernicus crater

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:54:48 +0100, Pete Lawrence
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Here's a shot of Copernicus, taken under good seeing conditions...

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/c...-04_Red_cn.jpg


Hi Pete-

Both images are excellent. A few questions: are these single shots, or
did you use some lucky imaging? What was the exposure time? From the
file names, I'm guessing you've isolated the red channel? Is that to
control atmospheric dispersion?
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