Hitchhiker
14-11-2005, 12:56 PM
Here are some pictures from last Saturday night. :)
All images were taken with an LPI at prime focus of my 10" LX200 GPS. Images processed in Registax with a touch of unsharp masking in Paint Shop Pro.
The first picture is centred on Milichius Dome, a lunar volcanic dome (this is a very small feature!). The large crater on the left side of the image is Copernicus. The second picture is the same as the first but with a circle around the crater Milichius and the volcanic dome. The dome is just to the right of the crater.
The third picture shows the crater Gassendi on the terminator. Gassendi is the larger crater on the terminator with a smaller crater on the bottom rim. Looks like a "pearl ring". Rilles on the floor of the crater are just visible.
Picture no 4 is Rimae Hippalus, a set of rilles visible in the centre of the frame. Looks a bit like a cat has scratched a furrow on the moon!
The last picture is of Sinus Iridium. Sinus Iridium is the "bay" visible just to the right of centre. The dark floored crater at the bottom left of the frame is Plato.
Had a very pleasant evening's observation on Saturday night. The seeing was pretty good and I was joined by a friend who is just starting out in Astronomy. We looked at the moon at various powers using Virtual Moon Atlas on a laptop as our guide. VMA is absolutely brilliant to have with you as you observe the moon - there are probably a couple of lifetimes worth of interesting objects to view! :thumbsup:
After finishing with the moon we observed Mars - again at various powers but with different filters. We found a red filter to be the best for observing surface features. After taking the pictures of the moon I put a 2X barlow on the scope, focussed and swung over to Mars. Just as I started imaging some fast moving clouds I'd been racing covered the planet! So no Mars pictures to show.:mad2:
All images were taken with an LPI at prime focus of my 10" LX200 GPS. Images processed in Registax with a touch of unsharp masking in Paint Shop Pro.
The first picture is centred on Milichius Dome, a lunar volcanic dome (this is a very small feature!). The large crater on the left side of the image is Copernicus. The second picture is the same as the first but with a circle around the crater Milichius and the volcanic dome. The dome is just to the right of the crater.
The third picture shows the crater Gassendi on the terminator. Gassendi is the larger crater on the terminator with a smaller crater on the bottom rim. Looks like a "pearl ring". Rilles on the floor of the crater are just visible.
Picture no 4 is Rimae Hippalus, a set of rilles visible in the centre of the frame. Looks a bit like a cat has scratched a furrow on the moon!
The last picture is of Sinus Iridium. Sinus Iridium is the "bay" visible just to the right of centre. The dark floored crater at the bottom left of the frame is Plato.
Had a very pleasant evening's observation on Saturday night. The seeing was pretty good and I was joined by a friend who is just starting out in Astronomy. We looked at the moon at various powers using Virtual Moon Atlas on a laptop as our guide. VMA is absolutely brilliant to have with you as you observe the moon - there are probably a couple of lifetimes worth of interesting objects to view! :thumbsup:
After finishing with the moon we observed Mars - again at various powers but with different filters. We found a red filter to be the best for observing surface features. After taking the pictures of the moon I put a 2X barlow on the scope, focussed and swung over to Mars. Just as I started imaging some fast moving clouds I'd been racing covered the planet! So no Mars pictures to show.:mad2: