Plato

[JonBosley]

Hi,

Had good seeing this weekend and got some good images of the moon. Here is Plato on a 20 day old moon. Webpage is here, click full.
http://www.whitedwarfobservatory.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=13670946

Thanks for looking

Jon

[Dennis]

Hi Jon

An excellent portrait of one of my favourite lunar regions. Nicely processed with very smooth tones. Mons Pico and the other mountains look spectacular.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

I agree with Dennis, Jon. A lovely image of Plato. Nice scale and tonal range. What camera are you using?

[JonBosley]

Thanks guy's.

Mike I am using the FC-1000m you can view details here: http://www.fclab.com/product1m.htm

This chip is used in a number of imagers right now mainly autoguiders like Orions, Fish & QHY's. It was also used in the SAC4.2 which, was a planetary camera that only a few were made before SAC went belly-up. Craig Stark of Stack Labs wrote some great software for it (the SAC version) which, works with my camera as well. My version is optimized for planetary, with short exposure settings, ROI's, very fast raw data downloads. I installed a cooling fan on it but need to ad a dampener to it to use it.

Thanks,

Jon

[vindictive666]

Wow Very Nice Picture !!!!


regards john

[erick]

Lovely photo Jon - A favourite spot of mine! Wish I could see it like this! :thumbsup:

[rmcpb]

Interesting view with the shadows on the opposite side to we what normally observe on a waxing moon.