Moon up-close

[peter_4059]

I set up last night for some visual observing to test a couple of new eyepieces. I came across this unusual scene so decided to get the camera out. I'm assuming I'm looking at Sinus Iridum?

[multiweb]

Funny I was looking at the exact same thing last night after collimating my C11 and that's pretty much the field I get in a 4~6mm eye piece. These folds look like papier mache. Nice shot. :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Hi Peter,

Very nice image of Mare Imbrium and Sinus Iridum. The terminator certainly adds a 3D effect to it.

Peter, if you enjoy imaging the Moon I would highly recommend "Atlas of the Moon" by Antonin Rukl ISBN: 1-931559-07-4

This is an excellent resource for identifying any feature on the Moon, it also provided extensive info on each feature.

Top image.
Regards
Trevor

[peter_4059]

Thanks Marc and Trevor. That's the first time I've spoted this effect where the crater appears to be leaping off the surface of the moon. Trevor, I've been using Virtual Moon Atlas to identify the craters but I have heard the book you refer to is a great reference.

Peter

[Clayton]

Nice lighting. Even though exagerated it gives a great feel for how high and steep the lunar mountains are.

[troypiggo]

Really nice texture there.

[peter_4059]

Thanks Clayton and Troy.

[erick]

That is a nice capture! :thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Peter

Please post more images of the Moon - the always moving terminator gives us such great views - great capture - I too saw this the other night and was suitably impressed.

[sheeny]

Lovely Mare Ridges there. Well captured.

Al.

[jjjnettie]

Very nice capture Peter.
Can't get enough of this region.

Do you have a copy of Virtual Moon Atlas?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualmoon/

[peter_4059]

Thanks for the feedback Eric, Matt, Al and Jeanette. I do have VMA however I haven't spent a lot of time using it. Matt, here's some more from the same session (some processing artifacts in some unfortunately).

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Peter
Do you use Registax - the reason I ask is in image 1 there are frame lines through the image - I sometimes get these when I used multiple alignment points. I do not know why they happen? When I use one alignment point it does not happen.
I suspect poor seeing makes it difficult for the frames to 'blend' well?!

[peter_4059]

Yes Matt - I did try multiple alignment points in Registax for the first ime in these images and I suspected the same as you. I guess the advantage of multipoint is more of the features will be aligned however the tradeoff is these breaks in the image where the pieces don't fit perfectly together. There is probably a clever way of dealing with this problem however I've not used multi point alignment enough to figure it out.

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Peter

If you ever sort it out let me know!

See ya