Mare Iridium - The Moon
Taken by James Guilford on March 28, 2015 @
Stephens Memorial Observatory, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio
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Camera Used: SAMSUNG EK-GC200
Exposure Time: 1/125
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2015:03:29 00:13:50
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A view of half-lit Mare Iridium — the Sea of Rainbows. In my idle time waiting for visitors on a very cold observatory Public Night, I tried a little afocal astrophotography. I used the observatory’s 9-inch Warner and Swasey telescope (ca. 1901) and my little Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 all-in-one. Most shots were a little shy of sharp, and all had some degree of chromatic aberration, and all had a big chunk of image missing where our century-old star diagonal is missing a bit of glass. One shot, however, did work out well, especially after a little fix-up including conversion to monochrome to eliminate color fringing. A digital camera recording the view through telescope optics from over a century ago? Yes, old and new can work together and produce beautiful results.
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