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Got a few good shots using the camcorder. It does really well on the moon but not as good as the Canon SD750 for Jupiter. Still, fun to play with.

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Beautiful Moon tonight. Both images captured through my Celestron C8 with a Panasonic DV camcorder and stacked in Registax.

This was made from the best 79 frames.

This one was made from the best 128 frames.

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I don't think I'd believe it if I hadn't seen it but while I was looking at the Moon this evening I saw a bat flying across the face of the Moon.

It was flapping madly for about 10 seconds before it finally reached the edge of the Moon and went out of view. Cool.

Wish I'd had the camera set up at the time.

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Waddayaknow, the Moon is made of green cheese.

I know, lots of Moon pictures. It's a good target with lots of interesting texture.

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It was nice and cool this morning with a light breeze the interfered with my picture taking but felt good so I rather have had it than not.

Took a look at the ring nebula again but don't have any pictures worth sharing and followed up by checking to see if it really was Neptune that I saw yesterday morning. Turns out that it was indeed.

The picture's not great because of the wind but the blueish dot is the planet Neptune. No, really.

Susan couldn't sleep and came outside with Chip to see some stars and I showed her what I'd been looking at. Jupiter put on a good showing and the Moon was pretty as usual.

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