Be gentle - it's my first ever effort!

[trekker308]

Well, I had to take my first leap into imaging, and here's a small version of the result:-

The little burgundy monster (Orion Mak-Cass) was used with my D200 straight onto the visual adaptor ....

[OXO]

Thats Great you should be proud of that one nice focus and good exposure Excellent!

Well Done :moon:

[FLO]

Ditto

[GazOC]

It's gone missing....

[trekker308]

Whoops! It's me as**ng about! I just tweaked the sharpness and managed to delete the image ... DUHHH!

[Martin 2]

Very Nice Allen

Martin 2

[GazOC]

Nailed the focus spot on there Allan. Cracker!

[Grant]

That's an awesome image! Really nice!

Grant :moon:

[Naz]

Nice one Allen, Good focus, and detail.

nabban

[mark RD]

Great image loads of detail, bet you really happy with that.

Mark

[MartinB]

Alan, that is superb for a 100th effort. :shock: :shock: For a 1st it is amazing. Focus perfect, exposure is spot on with no burnt out craters. Excellent contrast. Only one problem Alan, you'll find it hard to improve on

Martin

[daz]

That's a lovely shot!!!

I'm sure many agree that the crescent moon gives some superb image opportunities!

[trekker308]

I think I should give due credit to the Orion 'scope here!

For various reasons I'm not yet kitted out to take any shots with the MN78 (like not being able to achieve focus!), so I put the Orion out to cool while Damien was putting on his Astrocam show :salute: just to see what it could do - and I think I did it a dis-service there 'cos the result pleased me no end!

After I had finished taking the shots I put in a 19mm Panoptic to do some visual observing along the terminator and if it wasn't for the fact that I was desperate for a JD to get warm, I could have happily spent another hour there!

The prime reason for getting the Mak-Cass was its portability, but it's managing to delight every session I use it (Orion - send fivers in an envelope please!) :laugh:

P.S. Astronomy:- I know next to nothing - photography:- I know a little more - I found it helped to go for underexposure so that the craters didn't burn out and let the tweaking in Photoshop bring it back .....