Lunar shots, 23/01/2006

[iceman]

Here's some lunar shots I took in-between Jupiter avi's from yesterday morning.

You can see that my framing isn't very good :) That's the trouble with dobs, no slow mo hand knobs or controls to center the feature/crater you want to image.

Plus, at the image scale I was using, it was very hard to fit them in the FOV sometimes - especially clavius.

Taken with the ToUcam, 5x powermate, 10fps, B&W mode, 0 gain, 1/25s exposure.

Simple registax and wavelets, followed by a little sharpening/levels adjust in photoshop.

Happy with the image scale, happy with the fine detail, not overly happy with the framing :)

Comments welcome.

[ving]

very nice pick mike :)
have to do some lunar shots myself when its up at a "propper" time :)

do you mind if i play with 1 or 2 of them? I think i might be able to get a bit more out of them (or i could be fooling myself :P)

[iceman]

Knock yourself out Vingo :) I'll be interested to see what you come up with :)

[ving]

umm... i wont be coming up with anything if i knock myself out :P
thanks mike :)

[matt]

Nice Copernicus Mike. Those central peaks and terraced walls look great around day 23.

Some nice detail there. Love the shadowing in Clavius.

Never tire of the Moon. Must have another go at it.:)

[davidpretorius]

lovely work mike, i have been using the moon to focus, the dob driver is good as it has that fine guiding, which allows you to centre the image pretty well. I keep wanting to image, but the seeing is terrible at the moment

[Robert_T]

Mike that's a fine copernicus at far right... very well exposed too :)

[Striker]

Great work Mike the Pro Dobber.

[ving]

hmm... i dont know...
what do ya think?

[davidpretorius]

not sure myself????

they are all very good!

[ving]

cant tellif my work improved mikes pics or not....

[67champ]

Really nice pics Mike, better than anything I've got so far. I think the second batch are just a little better..

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