Observations 2/13/2025

Richard P. Hill 

Present: Dr. Kerry Kuehn

2/13/2025

This is just a quick update as I've been seeing lots of posts online trying to take pictures of transits across
the moon, so I thought it would be fun to take a shot at it.

The object we were trying to image was the Tiangong space station. We found this transit using https://transit-finder.com/. This was a spontaneous decision, but as it turns out, we captured a short video of the transit! The problem is the focus. When focusing the scope on the moon on the little camera screen, it can look focused, but the second it is put on a bigger screen, it is quite blurry. An easy solution is to either hook up my laptop every time and use it as a big screen or find a way to autofocus, which would require more equipment. This is a project I will continue to work on! :)