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bird
26-01-2007, 12:00 PM
I'm staying with my sister-in-law Lyn and her husband Graham in Pt MacQuarie for a few days, last night was a general viewing night for them and other rellies, so what do we look at? The moon of course!

Started out just visual, then after a while I wondered if my DX would work at prime focus (haven't tried this before) so I dropped it in and hooked up the laptop. Well, the view was stunning. I definitely have to do more widefield lunar stuff, without the powermate everything is 6x easier :-)

After a while I started recording, so there will be some very nice widefield lunar images coming up in this thread over the next few days.

At prime focus I can fit about 1/6 of the moon in the field of view, eg Mare Serentatis just fits. At this scale it's feasible to try a lunar mosaic in one night...

cheers, Bird
matt
26-01-2007, 12:17 PM
Looking forward to those images, Anthony.

Which scope were you using? I'm guessing the 10"?
bird
26-01-2007, 01:17 PM
Nope, the 13.1 planet killer

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

cheers, Bird
bird
26-01-2007, 02:45 PM
First image...
RB
26-01-2007, 02:59 PM
OMGosh Anthony that's awesome !

:eyepop:
matt
26-01-2007, 03:05 PM
Great image, Anthony.

Good seeing by the sea, eh?
bird
26-01-2007, 05:10 PM
One more, no title yet, and only 500 frames stacked. I'm experimenting with resampling 3x original size to process and then reducing later. Seems to be ok but takes a loong time on this laptop...

Bird
ballaratdragons
26-01-2007, 05:35 PM
Very Very nice, Bird! Stunning focus!!!!!!
67champ
27-01-2007, 04:10 AM
I agree, they are really nice to look at. Great job!

dt
davidpretorius
27-01-2007, 01:53 PM
sexy pics there mate!

The best thing is that us nutters are continually trying something new in order to improve the image.....sooooo much fun!

It is also great that we can get so wrapped up in high mag stuff and then along comes a comet and almost no image has captured the complete beauty of naked eyeing it!

keep having a great astro...oops work trip!
Tamtarn
27-01-2007, 08:52 PM
WOW Anthony !!!! So Crystal clear :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
bird
27-01-2007, 10:30 PM
This is the theophilus region. I'm now in Glen Innes and using my parents (fast!) computer, so I can afford to take more care in processing.

I'm resampling these images 3x when I process them, then reducing to 800x600 for the final result. It looks ok on the CRT I have here...

ps hmm, this looks very similar to the previous post, oh well, this one had a lot more TLC applied, so it looks better :-)

cheers, Bird
matt
27-01-2007, 10:32 PM
Looks good here too Anthony
h0ughy
27-01-2007, 10:35 PM
mate that awesome!! thanks Lexx!!!
iceman
28-01-2007, 07:32 AM
Lovely widefields, Anthony!
Ric
28-01-2007, 10:16 AM
Fantastic images Anthony, great detail and so crisp and clear.

Great images
bird
28-01-2007, 02:16 PM
One more...

Bird