Conditions for CASHCRAFT_20081208xxx Images last night

[Arnold Ashcraft]

Observations report for evening of December 7, 2008, 8:23 to 8:30 PM
EST.

Conditions: clear, cold and moderately high wind. Seeing poor.

Target: Southern limb of moon near crater Faustini

File names of posted images:
CASHCRAFT_200812080127.jpg
CASHCRAFT_200812080130.jpg
CASHCRAFT_200812080128.jpg

Name of observer: Clif Ashcraft

Email address of observer: wa2...@optonline.net

Type of telescope: Schupmann Medial

Aperture of telescope: 184 mm

Focal length of telescope: 2540 mm, f/14
Barlow lens used giving efl = 5093 mm, f/28 (by measurement of image
scale)

Type of camera used: The Imaging Source DMK 31BF03

Camera detector dimensions:
1024x768 pixels, 4.76 mm x 3.57 mm
Pixels are 4.65 x 4.65 microns.

Exposure information: gain = 417, 0.037 secs/frame, 30 frames/sec
Image capture software: IC Capture.
Red #25 filter, NIR Blocking filter
stack of 400 frames (typ) using Registax4 for aligning, stacking and
sharpening
seeing: Poor seeing, with moderately high wind, good transparency.
Perrineville Observatory, Perrineville NJ
Latitude: +40d 13m 56.5s Longitude: -75d 26m 38s Elevation: 164m

Other comments:

Moon: Azimuth:+208° Altitude:+56°

Related images: CASHCRAFT_200812080127etseq.jpg
This image is a rotated anc cropped mosaic from above three images