Object: Organ Mountain Moonrise
Exposure: Single 1/60sec exposure
Processing: Film processed at PDQ in Las Cruces and negative scanned with an HP Scanjet 4470c
Telescope: Celestron 8" Celestar @ f/10
Guiding: N/A
Camera: Pentax K1000 @ prime focus
Film: 35mm Fuji Superia X-tra 800
Location: My Back yard in Las Cruces, NM
Date: 9/8/01
Comments: This is the moon rising behind the jagged pinnacles of the Organ Mountains. The famous crater Copernicus is visible in the right-center of the lunar pie slice.

© Dave Dockery 2001