I haven't had any astrophotography on the blog for a while and that's primarily been because the weather and the seeing has been so lousy. And the nights that have been good, have been times when I've been out or just haven't had the energy to get out there and take some pictures. But the crisp, clear weather that you start to get in September has finally arrived so I finally got out there and got some photos. I was actually trying to capture Crater Boussingault on the Moon which is a nice crater within a crater but I was looking too far to the west. Instead I got some decent photos of the area around Crater Schiller.
Crater Schiller is the long oblong crater on the right. You can see the far walls of the dark Craters Bettinus and Kircher at the terminator in the middle.
The large crater in the middle foreground with the semicircle of craters gradually increasing in size within it is Crater Clavius. The two large craters above near the terminator are Craters Casetus and Moretus.
This photo was taken the very next night and you can see the oblong Crater Schiller at the middle top. The craters on the terminator as you head down from Schiller to the lower right at Craters Phocylides, Nasmyth, Schickard (the large one), Lehman, Lacroix, and the deep dark one at the lower right is, I believe, Vieta, with the smaller Crater Fourier just to its left.
All these were taken with the Starblast 4.5 with a 6.3 lens and a 3x Barlow.
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