A selection of Lunar Shots from Cloudy Sydney

[Dave882]

Not getting much of a break in the weather here in Sydney - but thought I'd try for some shots through the cloud anyways. Sometimes we get our best seeing when there's high cloud around...not this week unfortunately, with really unstable skies persisting until the cloud became too thick to shoot through. Alas there's always next month I guess..

Vallis Alpes
Vallis Alpes Widefield (experimented processing in the ASIStudio app rather than brining it into AS!4 & RS6
Heraclitus with Licetus
Ptolemaeus Alphonsus & Arzachel

c14 (non edge) @f11 with asi178mm (IR685 filter)
AS!4, Registax6
10ms, 3min captures, best 2%

Thanks for looking!

[Leo.G]

Amazing shots Dave!
First image, is that a "cut along dotted line" thing?

[Saturnine]

Nice images Dave, always good to see some lunar. Tried much the same that night but by the time the moon cleared the neighbours tree the cloud was getting too thick and added too much noise to make imaging usefull.

[Dave882]

Thanks Leo & Jeff.
Leo - yes there's a rille running down the middle of the valley, it's more obvious when the illumination and conditions are favourable. I was actually surprised it was visible at all given the poor seeing! Cheers

[rmuhlack]

despite the poor seeing, some pleasing images there with lovely detail

[foc]

The first 3 in particular really appeal to me. Very impressive C14 images