Was minding my own business when Phil, Lunar Freak, phoned and said, "Get off the phone and go outside!" Oh. Look. It's clear all of a sudden. I guess it would have been worth it to set up the big telescope and a camera. Alas.
I headed to the porch. It was cloud-free overhead. Damn.
Dragged out the baby Celestron. OK. Didn't drag. Picked it up from the kitchen table. Put it on the deck box. Grabbed a kitchen chair. Not too cold. Threw on a sweater. Picked up the Moon in the lower power eyepiece. Tree branch in the way. Brought the A/V table out. A better height. And waited for the Earth to turn a little.
When I saw Luna clear the tree, I grabbed the FujiFilm J20. Played with settings. Fireworks mode wasn't needed. Dropped the ISO from 1600 to 200, so to reduce noise. Zoomed in. And simply held (or tried) the lens to the eyepiece, flat, flush.
Too small. Overexposed. Zoomed in. White balance set.
Huh! Can see craters! Still fiddling with settings.
Ooh. Better exposure. Not centred.
Wow. Handsome image scale.
There it is! There it is! The X! Damn it. Shakey hands.
Got it!
Now, can I go back inside?
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Final shot details: FujiFilm finepix J20 point-n-shot camera, hand held. 1/40 second. f/3.8. ISO 200. Zoomed. 9mm focal length. Daylight white balance. Celestron First Scope.
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Wikipedia link: Lunar X.
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