A Picture of the Moon
The magnificent desolation of the lunar surface is visible even through a small telescope. I created this image by stitching together eight separate close-up pictures. I took each picture with an Olympus D-40z digital camera looking through an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Then I arranged the pictures into a mosaic in Adobe Photoshop. The resulting image was 25 megapixels, but I've scaled it down for the web.
By George Moromisato
27 June 2004
The moon on June 24th, 2004. This is a mosaic of eight separate pictures. Each picture was a 1/20th second exposure. I used a 25mm eyepiece and had the D-40Z at full zoom (x2.7).
27 June 2004
The moon on June 24th, 2004. This is a mosaic of eight separate pictures. Each picture was a 1/20th second exposure. I used a 25mm eyepiece and had the D-40Z at full zoom (x2.7).