Sky Watcher Heritage 76mm Mini Dob - Can we do lunar photography with it? Let's try!

I bought this little Sky Watcher Heritage Mini Dob from the Practical Astronomy Show in March: It has a 76mm diameter mirror and a focal length of 300mm. I was blown away by how good it is when you use it visually on the Moon and it's definitely a telescope I'll be using for eyepiece sketching. But can you image with it? I decided I wanted to try to do some lunar imaging and wanted to talk you through my results. Cameras used: Canon 1100D DSLR with a remote shutter cable ZWO ASI120MC CMOS camera. I used SharpCap to capture the video clips You could use a smartphone holder and photograph the Moon that way, but I didn't try that in this video. Stacking for both sets of images was done using Autostakkert! 3. I centred and cropped the DSLR images first using PIPP. I then denoised and sharpened using Focus Magic and final processing using Fast Stone Image Viewer. My video editing software will have downscaled the images, but let know your thoughts on these results!

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