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Dennis
23-12-2005, 07:00 PM
Hello,

More Lunar images from 2:00 to 4:30am, Friday, December 23rd 2005, Brisbane.

Hope I am not getting too boring with the spate of Lunar images of recent days, the steady skies are just too good to pass up. I’m getting a bit frazzled now, running on 3 hours sleep each day. Reminds me of the Monty Python Viking Song:

CHORUS:
I’m an Astronomer, and I’m OK;
I image all night and process all day!

Archimedes, Aristarcus, Clavius, Copernicus, Plato, Rupes Recta, Triesnecker & Tycho.

Equipment details:
Celestron C9.25
TeleVue x2.5 PowerMate
Philips ToUcam
Takahashi EM200 mount
JMI NGFS motofocus

Imaging details:
Acquired with K3CCDTools
1/25 sec
10fps
1800 frames
Images are sub-sets of between 300 and 1200 frames stacked.
Stacked withRegistax3 and saved as bmp's
Converted to jpg’s (40% compression) in Corel PhotoPaint 12

Aristarcus appears “flat” as it was not on the terminator and the Sun’s rays are illuminating it from directly above. A few clouds passed over during the capture of the avi so it’s a little washed out.

Cheers

Dennis
beren
23-12-2005, 07:13 PM
:thumbsup: Wonderful array of lunar images again Dennis, great detail and good capture with Aristarchus which is tricky because its so bright
Hitchhiker
23-12-2005, 08:49 PM
Absolutely fantastic images - keep 'em coming!

:bowdown:
sheeny
23-12-2005, 09:18 PM
Top stuff, Dennis!:thumbsup: I'm just starting with a ToUcam... it's great to see what it can do. Its inpiring, and it helps us newbies to get a handle on how to do it better.


Thanks! and keep 'em coming!

Al.
Striker
23-12-2005, 09:20 PM
Really nice......Dennis
iceman
23-12-2005, 09:23 PM
Wow Dennis, you're getting better each time you post.
atalas
23-12-2005, 09:42 PM
Awesome shots Dennis ! well done .
Robert_T
24-12-2005, 08:07 AM
These are Beautiful Dennis very crisp and clear and some great material - what's the one with ray material and what looks like a larva flow channel?


I'd just processed some moon shots from the same night but now I don't feel like posting anymore :ashamed:

what the hell, I will anyway :P
rumples riot
24-12-2005, 11:33 AM
Excellent images Denis, great resolution and exposures. Very good stuff. Good seeing makes all the difference. Well done.
Striker
24-12-2005, 11:40 AM
The image quality this year has really been turned up....fantastic work dennis.
Dennis
24-12-2005, 12:14 PM
Got it in one Paul - I was out again this morning and as a "stand alone" observation, I would normally have said that the seeing was great. But, compared to the previous 2 nights, it appeared quite average so I guess I have been very spoiled!

I have also been very fortunate to have the week off work so made the most of this rare seeing opportunity. Most importantly, I have a very understanding and astronomy friendly wife who has barely seen me for 3 days. :zzz2: :zzz2: :zzz2:

Cheers

Dennis
Robert_T
24-12-2005, 08:15 PM
man I gotta get me one of those ... only joking of course, my lovely wife has been very tolerant of my pursuit of the important things in life like new scopes, TV powermates etc... and I can do as much astronomy as I like so long as she doesn't catch me doing it (hence the early morning shift is popular) :lol:

cheers,
Dennis
24-12-2005, 08:53 PM
Hi Rob

Oops…must have missed responding to this query. The second image top row is Aristarcus, a really interesting area on the Moon. It's a tough image to get just right due to the tremendous variation in brightness across the frame.

I think the lava flow is sometimes referred to as the Cobra's head due to its appearance.

Cheers

Dennis
bird
25-12-2005, 01:27 AM
Top work Dennis, thanks for posting!

Bird
asimov
25-12-2005, 01:44 AM
Wow Dennis...Your pumping out some great stuff! Nice work.