As it went dark I began to set up my gear. It's Monday, 10th April, a lovely evening, the Moon high in the South East, bright and clear. The Moon waxing at 93% so I took some images first with my Skywatcher ST80 with the f0.6 reducer. Some brilliant images of a nearly full moon. Then I switched to the 130m and picked out some features to image. The best must be Tycho in both colour and grey-scale and Copernicus - loads of detail!
You can see these on my website.
Having some problems at the moment with tracking, maybe too much weight on the mount with both scopes. Sometimes the motor tracks fine then seems to stop - could do with another mount for the ST80 or maybe mount the scope differently?
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