On April 12 2008, at 2200hrs PDST I put my 6" dob out and pointed it at the Moon. The seeing was horrendous. A 1 at best. I expected to be disappointed. I was pleasantly surprised.


Some how I seem to keep missing the Moon memos. ; )

Then at just shortly after 2330 hrs, I watched the Moon occult the 5.3 magnitude star 10 Cnc. It went into the bright side close to the south pole around the crater Hale an reappeared only a few minutes later out of what I think is Wexler. That I don't have a shot of.

This shot was taken using a Canon PowerShot S50 through a 12mm eyepiece in an f/8 6 inch dob. It was only cropped and sharpened a tad. The seeing was so bad, I was surprised it was this focused.

Bill