Planning by the Moon: Moon Age, Illumination & Dark Windows
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You calculate the moon's age for eight November nights from a reference new moon with MOD, turn it into an illumination fraction, measure the dark hours left between dusk and dawn and flag the nights worth a deep-sky session.
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Lessons in this course
- Framing: Field of View in Degrees and Arcminutes vs Target Sizes Locked
- Image Scale: Arcseconds per Pixel, Seeing and Sampling Flags Locked
- Telescope Optics: Focal Ratio, Magnification, Exit Pupil & Resolution Locked
- Untracked Exposures: Star Drift by Declination, Pixel Trailing & Star Trails Locked
- Stacking: Signal-to-Noise, Sub-Exposure Counts & Total Integration Time Locked
- Sky Brightness: mag/arcsec², Darkness Classes & Limiting Magnitude Locked
- Planning by the Moon: Moon Age, Illumination & Dark Windows Locked
- Session Log & Dashboard: Integration per Target, Storage & Chart Locked