Bumps on the lunar limb

[Stefan Buda]

It's been a long time since I posted anything here.
Last month, near full moon, I captured a truckload of data for a large RGB mosaic and at the end I also grabbed a few AVIs of the limb, just for fun.
I'm still working on the RGB mosaic but here's the monochrome limb image reduced to 55%.

16" Dall-Kirkham, ASI120MM.

[Retrograde]

Wow - very nice Stefan!

[Peter Ward]

That is very impressive...looks like it was taken from lunar orbit

Well done :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Joshua Bunn]

That is awesome Stefan!

[h0ughy]

wow factor - very nice

[Stefan Buda]

Thanks guys for the comments.



Small-angle approximation: Divide lunar distance by the magnification of your scope and you realize that you can get to within a few hundred kilometres to the Moon with a good planetary scope. Still higher than an Apollo orbit but a hell of a lot more affordable. :-)

At the end of next July I should be able to approach Mars to about 60000Km.