Some nice lunar scapes from a night of good seeing

[Dennis]

Hello,

Friday night in Brisbane (21st July 2016) turned on the good seeing and I was able to record some nice lunar AVI’s using the Tak Mewlon 210 and ASI174MM.

Most AVI's were recorded at 3000 frames and I used AutoStakkert2! to align, stack and combine the best, followed by Wavelets in Registax 6 and finishing in CS6.

Cheers

Dennis

[Kunama]

Great pics Dennis! Nice detail on Petavius and Langrenus!

[beren]

Very nice Dennis.....go the Mewlon

[h0ughy (David)]

awesome Dennis. will i see you at Astrofest this year? its been a very loooong time.

[John Hothersall]

Those are great Moonscapes Dennis and the seeing was really good on 19th and 21st - conditions not seen for a while.
The ASI174 allows a nice large area too.

John.

[Dennis]

Thanks for your comments Matt, Stuart & Dave, I appreciate them.

It was quite unusual to have such good seeing in Brisbane during the winter months (28 deg C today!) so I was quite pleased with the outcome.

@ Dave – I’ve lost a little of the passion for packing stuff up in the car and then spending sleepless nights at distant places amongst snoring astronomers, so sadly, I will not be attending this year. Maybe one day the passion will return?

Hope you have a great time up there – have you progressed to hiring a big truck yet for all your gear?

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Those are great Moonscapes Dennis and the seeing was really good on 19th and 21st - conditions not seen for a while.
The ASI174 allows a nice large area too.

John.

Thank John, I had to reduce these to tighten up the image quality so the big chip of the 174MM does help!

Cheers

Dennis

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Great Pics ... very crisp and sharp...

Flash

[Edison]

Great job! Excellent! Congrats Dennis.
Regards,
Edison

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

Great Pics ... very crisp and sharp...

Flash

Originally Posted by Edison

Great job! Excellent! Congrats Dennis.
Regards,
Edison

Thanks Col and Edison, I appreciate your comments.

Cheers

Dennis

[Derek Klepp]

Nice ones Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Nice ones Dennis

Thank you Derek, I appreciate your comments.

The Moon is such an enjoyable target (I know – blasphemous to deep sky folks!) and so easy to find.

Cheers

Dennis

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent Luna pics Dennis

Mike

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent Luna pics Dennis

Mike

Complements indeed from Australia’s most famous, dedicated (and strongest) deep sky imager of international repute!

Cheers

Dennis

[RickS (Rick)]

Classy shots, Dennis! Almost makes me feel like trying my hand at planetary... but I figure I don't have time for yet another addictive vice

[Neil]

These are some of the best lunar images I've seen. I thought they looked like they were taken from orbit, truly ,Great effort.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Complements indeed from Australia’s most famous, dedicated (and strongest) deep sky imager of international repute!

Cheers

Dennis

...hey, they just think I am weird Dennis....aaand probably pretty close to the mark

Again, fabulous Moon shots mate

Mike

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by RickS

Classy shots, Dennis! Almost makes me feel like trying my hand at planetary... but I figure I don't have time for yet another addictive vice

Thanks Rick – you’ll probably burn out your sensors though, as your imaging system is not used to managing the overwhelming, copious volumes of photons in such short periods!

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Neil

These are some of the best lunar images I've seen. I thought they looked like they were taken from orbit, truly ,Great effort.

Thanks Neil, I appreciate your comments.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

...hey, they just think I am weird Dennis....aaand probably pretty close to the mark

Again, fabulous Moon shots mate

Mike

Thanks for the link Mike – what a time that must have been!

Cheers

Dennis