20% Moon showing libration of Mare Humboldtianum

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Chris Higgins
North Yorkshire
Skywatcher ED80 refractor with 0.8x reducer, ZWOASI290MC colour camera and a Baader IR pass filter.
Now that Jupiter is lower in the sky I turned my colour camera onto the Moon using an IR pass filter as an experiment. The ‘widescreen’ nature of the chip allowed a nice horizontal presentation, perhaps a fantasy view as I approach in my landing craft?
2017-03-02T00:00:00