APRIL 29TH - WAXING CRESCENT - 38.8%, 6.71 DAYS

[paulastro]

I was lucky to have a clear break this evening, dodging light cloud until it finally completely clouded up again at 8.50 pm.  Stofler and Maurolycus was well placed along with the area to the immediate South, including Licetus with Cavier adjacent to it to the South.  Both shadow field with only the W wall of Licetus illuminated - making the pair look rather like a keyhole.

The single frame below was taken at 8.23 pm, SW 120ED, Olympus E-M5 Mk11, 1/125 sec at 400 asa.  The crop is of the area mentioned above.

[CraigT82]

Lovely and sharp. I find it hard to focus I'm the blue skies but you've nailed it there

[paulastro]

Many thanks Craig,  I'd like to take the credit for good focusing, but this is mainly because my camera's adjustable rear screen can magnify the prime focus image (which is x36)  by up to x14 which gives me a total mag of x504. As you can imagine it's just like looking through a high power eyepiece.  If this seeing is not too bad, you can change the focus as the seeing changes and the image will clearly snap into focus when you have it right.  It does take a lot of patience (and many wasted pics!) though when the seeing is poor.  It's sometimes hard to take the frame before the seeing changes!