It’s really cold outside, but the sky is pretty clear after a couple cloudy days. The Moon is nearly half full now and the light from the Sun is displaying the craters near the terminator in stark relief. It was really beautiful through the eyepiece of my scope – there’s just so much more detail than you can see in these images.
I also tried to get an image of Comet 17P/Holmes, which is absolutely huge now. Even with my focal reducer it’s way too big for a single shot. I did a manual drizzle to get a bit more of the comet in view, but ran out of time to get the whole thing – I really just got the main body and not the end of the tail.
Flintstone Stargazing 
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Deep Sky Blog
Comment by Rick — December 17, 2007 @ 3:22 pm