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RICHARD COFER

Lunar Occultation of Jupiter (Egress)

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(Almost) Full Moon image

(Almost) Full Moon


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Moon at Lunation 13.6 (about 12 hrs before exactly full). Imaged from Top of Mississippi Skies Observatory (35.0 deg. N - 88.3 deg. W) on Oct 28, 2012 through a TMB-130SS APO refractor and an ImagingSources IS-DBK-41 camera on a Celestron CGEM mount. Final image consists of a composite of 9 videos - each approximately 1000 frames at at 15 frames/sec; aligned and best 25% stacked with wavelets in Registax 6 and combined in PhotoShop CS3. Resulting image sharpened with High Pass filtering in ImagesPlus v5.0. Tom Walker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Top of Mississippi Skies (T.O.M.S.) Observatory Iuka, MS