MOUNT ESSEX OBSERVATORY

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMY IN ESSEX MD.

December 21, 2010 LUNAR ECLIPSE IMAGES

For this event we set the scope out on the back deck and ran a USB line to an eMachine desktop. We monitored the Eclipse progress from inside while only going out in the 13 degree windchill to make minor tracking adjustments. Quite a change from sitting outside in the below freezing cold with our Gilberts in March of 1960

Celestron Neximage with Orion 80mm f/5 Refractor

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Unfortunately due to the clock drive battery failure we had to end image capture at this point.