It's cloudy here [:'(]


The moon requires a lot of focal length, and I think you've done pretty much what you can with 135mm.


The full moon is aesthetically appealing as Bill's *very* nice pic shows, but Rick is correct in saying that it is easier to see fine detail when the moon is somewhere between full and new:


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This was taken with a 12 1/2" Starmaster dobsonian (Carl Zambuto mirror). It's 3175mm f/10 (normally 1587 f/5 but I used a barlow here), cropped to about 6400mm full frame equiv. I took it at iso 400 to get a fastish 1/40 second shutter speed. The air- which limits sharpness when using a long focal length- was extremely steady that night. The blurry corners are due to coma (I've since purchased a corrector... if only I could have this one to do again).


I'll wait up a little longer... maybe the sky will clear.



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