New Year Moon

I had a couple of breaks in the clouds, one at lunchtime, and one after dark. I managed to capture the moon on both occasions, by putting the C80ED on my new Redsnapper tripod with the 450d on a 2xTC at prime focus.

The one at lunchtime was really tricky, there was so little contrast between the moon and the sky that I could only just see the moon in the viewfinder, therefore ensuring focus was tough.



This one was taken about 2000 this evening, in another break in the clouds.



I'm coming to the conclusion, that either I'm not hitting focus quite right, or the TC is causing detirioration of the image quality too much. I need to do some experiments on this.