Burg, Clavius, Hyginus Rille, Aristoteles and Eudoxus, Fracastorius, Plato, etc.

[Dennis]

Hello,

The wee hours of the morning in Brisbane delivered some reasonable seeing, ranging from 5/10 to 6/10 with moments of 7/10 for brief spells. Sets of clouds marred the overall session and several AVI’s were ruined by clouds dimming then obliterating the target.

As a result, the quality of the following images vary due to the conditions. Some AVI’s had over 400 frames from 2100 that contributed to the final image; others could only scrape up 130 to 150 due to the AVI run being shortened by the clouds. All images made extensive use of between 5 and 10 Multiple Alignment Points in Registax 4 to cope with the variable seeing.

The lunar features are:

Burg in the Lacus Mortis.
Clavius, quite foreshortened.
The Hyginus Rille.
A 2 pane mosaic of Aristoteles and Eudoxus.
Fracastorius.
Plato.
Posidonius, and finally,
Theophillus.


Mewlon 180 F12 DK cassegrain, TeleVue x2.5 Powermate and DMK21AF04.AS ccd camera.

Brisbane, 7th May 2007, from 1:26am to 3:58am AEST (GMT+10)

Cheers

Dennis

[cyberplocos]

Great images Dennis!

regards,
Fabio

[h0ughy]

nice mix of areas Dennis. Is this now your favoured setup?

[Dennis]

Thanks Guys!

David – yes, I really like the simplicity, ease of handling and performance of the M180 on the EM200 – the combo looks nice too!

I’ll keep the C9.25 though, as the larger aperture is very useful.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Wow Dennis, what a great portfolio. Very nice lunar images, great to see a) some stuff from you again, and b) some hi-res lunar images.

We're got clouds and rain predicted until Sunday so I'm very much looking forward to more from you to keep my imaging hunger satisfied until then.

[John K]

Hi Dennis,

that's a great collection! a real tour of the moon. Thanks for sharring.

John.

[RB]

Beautiful work Dennis, you've done extremely well in the prevailing conditions.
I'm so glad the Mewlon is delivering the goods, lovely piece of gear indeed !

Like Mike, I too ask that you please keep us fed from your celestial smörgåsbord.

:thumbsup:

[erick]

Cannot wait until I see if I can spot some of those craterlets in Plato visually - another challenge added to my lengthening list.

Lovely photos - I'm printing Plato as a reference for my observing - Thanks Dennis

Eric :)

[davidpretorius]

easy.........go the 10" or 12" DK...........imagine what that would be like.

great images dennis

[Dennis]

Thank you to everyone, for your very nice comments on the images.

Cheers

Dennis