another old moon shot

[fringe_dweller]

messin around with old shots again :P
two large files around 1MB each - same pic - one colour, one greyscale
taken afocal with nikon cp 4500/WO 24mm ep/ 1/59 sec/ISO 100 f7 10" dob/newt in july last year - single shot - focused with lcd on back
some unsharp mask - and some levels in the greyscale version
2272x1704 pixels in size - watch it you firefox users with auto resizing to screen hehe

http://southern-x.org/so_x/moon10/moongrey.jpg
http://southern-x.org/so_x/moon10/mooncolour.jpg


does anyone else hold the view that full disc moon shots are unusual, in as much as that the main thing is resolution and when you reduce for web you lose the main objective? maybe defeating the purpose? whereas i cant think of another type of astro shot were that is as critical? i mean it will be a long time before planetary imagers will have that problem with image size being still relatively small with webcams
which do you prefer colour or greyscale? - i find i lose some detail in the dimmer areas with greyscale - while it brings out the detail in the brighter areas - i cant make my mind up

still going to get a decent external focusing device - maybe a cheap laptop or portable dvd player - thats why i havent done anymore really since :P

[rumples riot]

Nice image Kearn, I like the moongrey image. Fantastic scale and very sharp.

[fringe_dweller]

Thankyou Paul! :) i agree too, the greyscale has the edge overall i think

i can do better than that with this scope/setup hopefully too, because I have seen it visually a lot better than that, routinely over the years. also i was still using the infinity setting back then, before i discovered macro! :doh: and i will use the tiff mode next opportunity too. the wo 24mm ep isnt the very greatest ep ever made - still pretty damn good tho in slow scopes- i have seen stacked shots with cp 4500 and takahashi 12mm? ep of planets thats pretty nice -also was only half hour cooldown on scope at the time oh yeah what other excuses have i got - mirror coating ten or 11 years old!!

[RB]

That's a great shot Kearn.
Nice detail, huge image scale.

Well Done

[ballaratdragons]

Hey Kearn, They are magnificent!!!! The detail is so crisp . . . and it's so BIG!

Top shot mate.

[acropolite]

Superb shot Kearn, almost like being there...:D

[fringe_dweller]

Thankyou very much guys!!! :-)))) Yes i was imagining i was orbiting in my tin can 'dobollo 10' too Phil - ah cheap thrills!
some nice local trivia about the moon for me - its visible surface area is roughly the equivalent area size of SA :) love that one - my ex surveyor mate mentioned it once and it stuck in my head ever since LOL

[iceman]

Excellent stuff Kearn, huge image scale and very sharp!

[Robert_T]

where's my laminator? I want a poster:)

awesome

[Muddy Diver]

Best I've seen and so much detail shown in such a large moon..awesome.

Macro eh?... I never thought of that DUH..cant wait for the next clear sky and moon

[fringe_dweller]

Cheers Fella's :-)))

[asimov]

Despite being on rotten dial-up I went & had a squizz anyhow....That's HUGE Mate!!

Lovely!

[LT_Ng]

Those are very nice.

Personnally, I love lunar images taken with CoolPix digital camera rather than ToUcam.

Thanks for posting.

LT

[fringe_dweller]

:scared2: :prey2: awesome effort John - i was on dial up for 6 years - it feels like the eye of the proverbial needle - do you at least got near the 56k speed mark?
during one dial up era I had to send dozens and dozens of high quality scans of comets (with the ozelame 10meg email limit :P ) to oversea's researchers, took me years to recover from that :P
anyway i'm impressed and i appreciate that mate - but i wanted that flyby look that i could see on my puter -
cheers

[fringe_dweller]

Thankyou LT - yep an ultra close 2cm macro (minimal vignetting) fully manual/ cable/palm remote compatable 4 MP ect. is still very handy - 4500's and there predessors were the bee's knees briefly in planetary stuff for a while once - how cheap do they go on ebay these days (havent looked for while now) >3 - 400 au
maybe? good value still

[beren]

Wow what a stunning image , like the greyscale best , focus is on th money :)

[fringe_dweller]

Cheers Beren, :) :cheers:

[asimov]

Hey Kearn, any planet shots in your photo album? Love to see some if you have any..Oh my fav. is the B/W moon mate!

[beren]

Forgot to say the image scale gives a good perpsective on the ejecta rays from the more prominent craters , impressive image :)

[Dennis]

Wow - what a magnificent mosaic, so clear, crisp and clean. Messier A&B and the Alpine Valley look wonderful in the larger setting of the gibbous disc - great job.

Cheers

Dennis

[fringe_dweller]

Not really John, I am intimidated by you webcammmers, I just enjoy looking at what they can do - how do you top that!? I had a couple of half assed goes over a long period - didnt have it worked out back then - supposed to use the optical zoom ect.
here's a saturn thru my mates 12" f6 on a crappy night of seeing last march? image scale is puny due to a few things, no zoom ect. - also the stacking proggy's on mac's are strange and weird - KIS keiths image stacker is the best - but its like IRIS i suspect written by and for people of a advanced puter/programming knowledge - life is too short to read and understand memorize the how to! LOL i used free mac proggy lynkeos for stacking three shots in the small saturn - unfortunately i kept changing settings exposure ect. when aquiring and they wouldnt match up for stacking of course - cant figure out how to auto rotate to match them up?
the larger image is a single shot - i have some jupes as well - but not worth posting

and Thanks again beren! i love the big sprays and splats its like they happened yesterday :)

[fringe_dweller]

Thanks Dennis! its a single shot mate :)

[fringe_dweller]

there's a stacked Saturn shot (with full russian raw mode hack in camera) on the front page of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Coolpix4500Digital_Astro/ by a Tom Carney that shows the best that a 4500 can do on a planet i guess - i have yoinked it for here

[Dennis]

Wow - I am gobsmacked :prey2: The resolution and quality had me completely fooled into thinking it was a mosaic.

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

Thanks for posting the saturns mate. Still nice despite the lack of image scale. :)