{"id":298,"date":"2010-05-26T23:14:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djdan.hopto.org\/dan\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-05-26T23:14:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:14:28","slug":"telescope-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Telescope (moon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad acquired a telescope gratuitously from someone he knew, who had made adjustments to the mirrors that made the images unclear. Our neighbour George was kind enough to find manuals for a similar type telescope, and using the calibration instructions, we were able to calibrate the mirrors again. That night, we tried it out on the moon, and were glad to see it worked quite well! A normally $200+ priced telescope for free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2000.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299\" title=\"The Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2000-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"The Moon\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2000-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2000-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis would have to be the best shot I got using my digital camera stuck in the eyehole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM1999.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-300\" title=\"HPIM1999\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM1999-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM1999\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM1999-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM1999-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe camera has a hard time focusing on targets that are 384,400 km away, however in this shot you can sort of make out the crater edges that were much clearer to our eyes than the camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2001.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-301\" title=\"HPIM2001\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2001-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM2001\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2001-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2001-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother pretty good shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2004.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" title=\"HPIM2004\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2004-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM2004\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2004-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/HPIM2004-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA not so great close up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You truly could spend hours exploring all the different craters and edges and details of the moon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad acquired a telescope gratuitously from someone he knew, who had made adjustments to the mirrors that made the images unclear. 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