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This was the first action in
Prague. I'd been there since Sunday 1st and been totally clouded out
day and evening. I saw a waning gibbous Moon. Tycho's rays were
dominating the moonscape but the Appennines were almost drowned out by
the light but Plato showed well. Grimaldi was further from the limb
than normal, thanks to libration.
Oct 30th
The sunspot group appeared
right on the edge as seen through my binoculars under poor, cloudy
conditions.
The final action of the month
was another Moon shoot, starting with the full disc.
To the bottom right is the
much elongated Schiller, although the whole region is rich in craters.
Now would a gibbous Moon shoot
look complete without Tycho? No Way!!!
But then there's Plato and the
Appennines at the north.
Copernicus, Kepler and the
rather interesting multi-feature below Kepler looked rather intriguing.
Oct 29th
At first, it was clouded out
so I was unable to check for sunspots but it cleared enough in the
afternoon to record the sunspot group, altohugh not enough to snap the
Sun with my PST.
Oct 28th
If anything conditions for
solar viewing were even worse than the previous days but I still
managed to see the sunspots, which were near to rotating off.
As often happens, it cleared
up later in the day but I was too busy with work to snap the Sun! It
had got a bit worse when I took some snaps of the Moon, starting with
the full disc, which I was quite pleased with.
I then did a close-up of Plato and Sinus Iridum.
Next up was Copernicus.
Clavius and a few well-known neighbours came out quite well.
The final shot was Plato amongst the Alps.
Oct 27th
It was a cloudy start but it
finally cleared around lunchtime to reveal sunspot rotation.
I was hoping to do a lunar
photo shoot in the evening but all I was able to get was the
conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter with just the camera at 18:30 GMT.
