morteus, gruemberger and cysatus

[ving]

gee i want to try this with better seeing!!!

taken under apauling conditions. morteus (center), with gruemberber and its adjoining cysatus.
taken with 8" and lpi with 2 stacked 2x barlows....

gawd, it bloomin awful! sorry to have to subject your eyes to it, i hope they dont bleed :P

[mickoking]

Great crater names :P

[ving]

:rofL:

thanks for making me laugh mick :)

great crater names alright!

[Dennis]

Hey David

Wow - your libration angle is worse that mine, which in itself was worse than Zac's. These images have been quite a revelation for me as I previously thought that libration only produced minor effects.

Cheers

Dennis

[Lester]

Hi Ving,

good to see you putting some images together.

[middy]

Gruemberger ..... Isn't that a type of cheese? :P ..... probably green cheese too! :lol:

[ving]

libration! cool! :thumbsup:

er... whats a libration? :confused:

[Dennis]

Hi Ving

Have a look here http://astronomy.physics.tamu.edu/Java/Tools/Lunar/Libration/index.html

Cheers

Dennis

[ving]

thanks denis :)

so dues to the rocking motion of the moon we can see parts that would otherwise be hidden just on the other side? Wow!

i am now impressed with my crappy picture :D

[ving]

hey, this is the only pic of moreus on this site :D

[ving]

... in fact its not even on lpod. maybe i should see if i can get on lpod? ;)

[Dennis]

;) Err...well...yes and no, or not quite the full truth here. Your image shows a poor libration for the southern limb, although if you had imaged the northern limb, it would be good libration at that limb.

Confusing isn't it. :thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Maybe, but there's quite a few pics of moretus, by Dennis, Zac, Sheeny and others :)

Libration is a funny thing, I captured something on teh north pole the other night thanks to favourable libration. It looked very interesting, never seen it before and i'm looking forward to processing it.

[ving]

oh picky picky! :P

ok... now less impressed with my crappy picture :P

[mickoking]

Poor Vingy,well I'm impressed :thumbsup:

[ving]

cheers mick :)

your cheque is in teh mail.. :P

[Robert_T]

Hey Ving, nice lunar limb work... but my eyes haven't stopped bleeding:rofl:

Good one Ving:)

[ving]

lol, thanks robert :P

[seeker372011]

did you convert to greyscale? lots of people seem to do that with lunar images, makes them for some reason look better

look forward to more, once all this rain goes away :)

[ving]

yeah i am looking to more too :)

its not converted to grey scale. but it was only a quick process too... maybe i'll have another go at it, but it like flogging a dead horse, the avi is really poor :)

[davidpretorius]

what is it a picture of mate???

be careful to only post astronomy photos in the astronomy sections and terrestrial ones in the terrestrial section

:D
I think i can just make out morepoous, grumblebungler & cystpoppus

[RB]

It lacks emotion David.

:P

:lol:

[davidpretorius]

you betcha :D

i am missing a good blowing of steam and a good laugh, no jetstream, but cloud followed by no cloud and lotsa jetstream.

as vingo points out "gee i want to try this with better seeing!!!", and he is spot on!

bring on some decent weather!!!!

[ving]

theres stacks of emotion there RB....

a bit of this: :mad2:
a bit of this: :screwy:
and alot of this :lol:

what more could you ask for :P

[ballaratdragons]

Mr. Vingo,

I hope you don't mind but I ran your pic thru Registax as a single Bitmap image.

Then I ran it thru PaintShop Pro. All I did was: Greyscale, Soften, Despeckle.

It came out a bit better for you.

[ving]

No prob ken, thanks :)
looks even better as a thumbnail :)
i gave it another go myself with heavier waveletting and got more detail but it looked even specklier.

I do intend on re shooting this crater... along with one never posted here or lpod! :D

[ballaratdragons]

Yeah David, get a pic of a crater on the other side of the Moon. I haven't seen anyone post one of those yet :thumbsup:

:lol:

[ving]

thats my intention ken ;)
:P

[okiscopey]

Yes, Gruemberger, a wonderful delicacy of San Merino, the only cheese in the world made from rodents (Geneolepus insignis). These little bilby-like creatures are traditionally hunted at full moon with non-magnetic traps and incorporated into the secret, centuries-old Gruemberger process. It is known that goat's milk is the basis, but an unspecified number and type of herbs are also incorporated. The resulting spherical green cheese is always consumed at the next lunation. It's only the wax outer coating that's green - the interior is pale yellow with holes, and looks much like the Swiss Emmental.

http://www.loonypedia.org/Cheese/Gruemberger/