At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.
It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019.
It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a recently-acquired second-hand camera with a recently-acquired second-hand PC and a recently-acquired new SSD. Being able to record full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi files at 160 FPS with no skipped frames and no write-lag is a real improvement which should be useful for capturing ISS Transits:
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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Fascinating stuff BG and a great celebratory image.
The amateur equipment available now - like that camera - seems alien even to me, and I did a bit of simple astrophotography with my Celestron 8 many years ago. Really interesting kit.
Cheers for that, Geoff.
The amateur equipment available now certainly changes the game... digital tracking, digital capture, digital processing, digital dissemination...
I can't recall the last time I actually looked through a telescope.
On the subject of digital capture tech, rest assured that I won't be acquiring any of these:
https://www.svs-vistek.com/en/industrial-cameras/svs-camera-detail.php?id=shr411CCX
https://youtu.be/bh6y1566AW0