Lunar crater close ups

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F19.9 with 3xTV Barlow, EQ6, DMK21AF, Astrodon Red filter.

With above average seeing for once I gave the Moon a couple of hours as it looked occassionally quite good with quick flashes of fine detail in the image seeing vibration - JetStream seems to be further South than usual.

Images are nowhere near the best but good enough to show as past month and a half seeing has been poor or average. Stacked 900 out of 3600 frames at 30fps with gain about 400-600. Used AviStack 1.8 and Regx5 for wavelets finishing in PS.

Thanks, John.

[AdrianF]

Nice photos.

Adrian

[DavidU]

Nice and sharp John. It must be good to have the jet stream settling down.
Why the red filter?

[michaellxv]

Nice images John.
First one looks like a flyby.

[Jaybee]

Wow, Nice Images, John. I especially like the first one :thumbsup:

[Liz]

They look great John!! Wonderful to see some differejnt craters and angles on teh Moon, and 1 is great. :thumbsup:

[John Hothersall]

Thanks guys and gals, seeing was occassionally quite good but did deteriorate over the 2 hours I spent.



Well David I use a red filter when seeing is above avg but not great as it cuts down the seeing movement, and I use green filter when seeing is good-vgood and Lum or no filter when seeing is excellent which hardly happens. The red filter still gives a good frame rate of 30fps at long fl if not to close to terminator.

Regards, John.

[renormalised]

Great shot, John:)

They would make great examples of lunar geology to teach 1st years with, especially about crater morphology and formation processes.

[Clayton]

Lovely set of images John!

[Bassnut]

Those pic are good, very good.

[multiweb]

Wow! That's awesome. Good tip with the filters. :thumbsup:

[Lester]

Very nice, sharp and detailed images John. Thanks for the views.

[Omaroo]

Straight to the pool room with these. Very well executed indeed. :thumbsup:

[niko]

these are amazing John - very well done indeed

sometimes (many times) I just marvel at what we are able to photograph of space from our tiny little rock hurtling through space

mind blowing really

niko

[StarLane]

Some fn awesome images mate, I'm jealous. Wish I had the time to play....

Cheers

[ChrisM]

John, these images are impressive - especially the first one. Best I've seen in a while.....

Chris