Moon May 12th 2011

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By The Man with the Corrugated Iron Roof

January 3, 2014 at 2:55 pm

Philip Pugh

Chippenham

Skywatchwer 127mm Maksutov, Kodak Easyshare compact digital camera

Lunar image recently reprocessed in GIMP from a single frame

2011-05-12T00:00:00

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