Salvatore Antonio Spampinato’s First Lunar Images
Salvatore Antonio Spampinato is an amateur astronomer, based in Italy, who has submitted one of the first images of the Moon, which he captured with his DMK 21AF04 camera, manufactured by The Imaging Source.
Accompanying his image, he wrote:
I haven’t any kind of “degree” in astroimaging so I experienced simple shots using a DMK21AF04, joined to a small telephoto lens (Fujinon 200mm f/4.5). Just for fun…
- Moon, 16-06-2008 19:45 UT. Stack of 500 frames. IR-cut on. Registax and IRIS.
- M13. Stack of 120 shots without guiding (about 30 for each channel), ranging from 8 to 16 seconds, taken from my roof in the middle of my town. Dark subtraction. LRGB [composite] using IR-cut plus 3 very old photo filters. Unfortunately transparency wasn’t so good, then I hope to get something better in future.
Thanks you for sharing this image with the community.
Efrain Morales said,
June 26, 2008 @ 22:39
Hi Salvatore, A beautiful first light image of the moon, Very sharp and detailed Great job! and Clear Skies.
Salvatore said,
June 27, 2008 @ 18:06
Hi Efrain, thank you a lot
I would like to spend some nights on easy-to-catch deep sky objs also, but I’m strongly limited by the uncertain performances of this small and (very) cheap telephoto lens…
Efrain Morales said,
June 28, 2008 @ 16:22
Well you are doing a fine job with what you have and should be able to catch some really nice wide angle shots. We all started this way i know i did.