2008's First Full Moon

So, I grabbed my 'scope (Vixen ED103SWT), slammed it on my G11 mount along with my Canon 300D camera and bracketed several pictures from 1/1000s to 1/400s in 1/3-stop increments at 200 ISO setting; the 1/640s shot probably came out best. Unfortunately my scope's focal length is probably a tad too short; yet, I think the view is nice. Focusing was performed via DSLRfocus on a star (FWHM value), not really the handiest way since the seeing was really awful.

The original picture underwent some very slight processing in Photoshop (a mild unsharp mask and cropping of most of the surrounding pitch-black background). The original 1280x1024 image (which also makes a nice wallpaper on my PC's desktop ) can be found here.