Lunar Observation Session on May 27

Before the mansoon starts we planned observation session on May 26, 2007. We planned to go away from Mumbai to Murbad area for observation. But at Last moment plan failed as we realize that moon will be in sky till 2:45 am leaving us very short period of time for DSO, and that to in cloudy sky. So alternately we planned Moon Observation from comfort ass="section1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Using 4X Barlow coupled with 25mm Eyepiece I used my Mobile Camera, I took some snaps by painstakingly centering tiny Mobile Camera lens over small eyepiece eye lens. There is lot of shaky images :(. So I decided to video shoot using mobile, I know that it will give me small image size but still it is the best thing I can do to get better results as I can choose good frames from 1000s of available. Here to my surprise I do get some acceptable results, If Camera would have mounted on Eyepiece instead of Hand held it would be much better that what I got…

Here are what I got...
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1. Copernicus View One


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2. Copernicus View Two


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3. Gassendi -


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5. South of Gassendi region



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4. J. Herschel – I have seen this amazing crater for the first Time, It surprising that I have never come across this big crater before. May be the conditions on May 27 were favorable at crater was rightly placed at terminator. The details visible in telescope were really beautiful as you can guess from this low resolution photo.



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6. Tycho region - The bright white one is Tyco – Don’t think I have copied it from somewhere by Looking at “DIVx” watermark :D I have to convert file from 3gp format (This is the format Mobile camera captures video) to AVI so that I can extract frames using Microsoft Movie Maker.


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Have a Nice Day

Sameer