Beautiful Full Moon Rise through 900mm Telescope 4x timelapse V10189

Some nice footage of last night’s full moon rise, using a Celestron 900mm telescope and 2x optical teleconverter, resulting in an 1800mm equivalent magnification/focal length. The action is sped-up 4x in software (Sony Vegas) and a nice ambient soundtrack rounds-out the scene. The strange wavy movement is caused by looking through heat waves in the Earth’s atmosphere. The variation in air density acts as a sort of moving lens, much like looking down a desert road in the summer. This is a problem with all