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A gibbous Moon imaged by Douglas Renton-Cooper. Picture taken on 5th March 2009 at 2035 GMT. Telescope was a 4.5" refractor using prime focus at F14.3. Telscope on driven equatorial mount.

Exposure was 1/200sec. Camera body, Canon EOS 350D. Chip speed set at 100 to 400 iso. There was only one frame per picture. No stacking.

Seeing was very good, about 9.