Looking up

I took this photo of the lunar landscape (above) on 11 August using a simple method: with the lens of my digital camera held up close to the 20mm eyepiece of my Celestron AstroMaster

70 telescope. Using the lens’s macro setting with the camera’s steady-shot facility helped add to the result. I hope this will encourage other readers to see that it’s possible to achieve fairly detailed shots using basic equipment. Thank you for keeping the magazine going over the COVID-19 outbreak: the magazine, and astronomy itself, remind me that we can put out of mind the problems of this small planet and escape to places where such things do not exist. As the 1930s film comedian Will Hay (a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, no less) once said, those who hold an interest in astronomy, “see life in its true proportion”. Ed Hodson, Winchester