Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Celestron FirstScope Full Moon

Celestron FirstScope
Full Moon Project

The Celestron FirstScope is ideal for shooting the Moon. However, you'll need to follow some basic rules to get decent results.

The telescope has a spherical mirror so high resolution with any significant magnification is a great challenge, however, going for the Full Moon at reasonable image scale is fully workable.

You'll need to heavily computer image process the result with sharpen, contrast and light/dark using the computers OS photo software. The result - Full Moon imaged through my Celestron FirstScope using a hand held SONY camera and processed with Apple system OS software. Lunar image shot in Beijing China from the ground steps terrace of a residential skyscraper in full view of light pollution.

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