Here are some lunar images from 18th and 19th Sept from Brisbane.
The 1st 4 were from the 18th were seeing was between 6 and 7/10 whereas the last 4 were from the 19th where the seeing had dropped to between 5 and 6/10.
All taken with the ZWO ASI 174MM, Tak Mewlon 201 and Tak x1.6 Extender.
Thanks Stuart, David & Marc, I appreciate your comments.
@David: sorry, no mosaic. This was my 1st time setting up for a while and as I was a little rusty I decided on a "play-and-enjoy" session rather than a full on imaging mission.
How rusty was I? Well, it took me a few goes to work out why Autostakkert was cropping my AVI's...I had "Planet" and not "Surface" selected.
I wonder whether ballistic/forensic experts are among moon photographers and what goes through their heads when look at the craters. The rim and outer landscape of the one in the linked photo looks like a volcanic explosion site from the innards of the moon, not an impact crater of an object crashing onto the surface?
I wonder whether ballistic/forensic experts are among moon photographers and what goes through their heads when look at the craters. The rim and outer landscape of the one in the linked photo looks like a volcanic explosion site from the innards of the moon, not an impact crater of an object crashing onto the surface?
Hi Annette
Here is a screen capture of the region from the "Virtual Moon Atlas", an amazing free application that has Lunar orbiter and other Spacecraft images.
Couldn't see the particular landscape nor the crater in your screenshot.
So I reverse-looked up your photo on the web and found the funny crater's name is Aristillus. And that the first lunar landing in 1959 happened in the gap between it's 2 neighbouring craters Archimedes and Autolycus.
Your photos should be on Wikipedia, you know? So detailed and natural looking - amazing!
Couldn't see the particular landscape nor the crater in your screenshot.
So I reverse-looked up your photo on the web and found the funny crater's name is Aristillus. And that the first lunar landing in 1959 happened in the gap between it's 2 neighbouring craters Archimedes and Autolycus.
Your photos should be on Wikipedia, you know? So detailed and natural looking - amazing!
Hi Annette
Good detective work.
The http link in your original post took me to the Hyginus Rille image (#1 in the series of 8), hence the "wrong" screen print.
Well done Dennis.
They look like they were taken from one of the orbiters.
Nice and crisp..
Peter
Thanks Peter, I appreciate your comments.
A combination of some good seeing conditions, along with the larger chip size of the ASI174MM (1900x1200) and a series of amazing apps like FireCapture (Camera Control), Autostakkert (AVI Processing) and Registax (Wavelets) really helps kick things along.
Thanks Rob, and careful what you wish for, I was out again last night (Fri 21st Sept) and under orders from the IIS Moon Mosaic Maestro (H0ughy), I gathered 26 AVI's to make a mosaic.