Plato and a few craterlets - Feb 18th

[Dennis]

Hi

Around 4:00am the seeing must have hit 9/10 on the Pickering scale 'cos I could easily see the 4 craterlets in Plato on the avi as it was running. I punched the avi through Registax and used Wavelets 1:25 2:15 and 3:10 to bring out some other ones on the floor.

I hope someone was imaging Jupiter 'cos I was so intoxicated with the Moon I forgot and didn’t point the C9.25 to Jove until twilight.

Cheers

Dennis

[Starkler]

Nows thats a great pic of a challenging subject :thumbsup:

[Robert_T]

bit hard to find words for this one Dennis, but WOW... I mean WOW
I doubt I've ever seen such fine lunar detail in one frame before, amazing!

Best intentions last night disspated with just a few too many cans :drink:

If it stays fine tonight might give Saturn a crack.

cheers,

[Dennis]

Thanks guys

I almost packed up around 1:00am 'cos I was getting savaged by mossies and I forgot to switch on the Kendrick dew heater, even though I had fitted it to the OTA. :doh:

The SCT corrector dewed up, even with a dew shield and I had to scrabble around in the bathroom to find a hair dryer to clear the corrector plate.

This is too hard I thought, so I made myself a coffee, found that inner peace once more and then got back down to work.

Cheers

Dennis

[John K]

Great image Dennis! Wish I was at your site with 9/10 seeing!

[astro_south]

great image Dennis. If it is favourably visible I always up the power on Plato for a quick crater count

[bird]

Dennis, buddy, your great seeing is the envy of us southerners...

I'll be in Rockhampton for 2 weeks in may, I just pray i'll get something like this on at least one night!

Bird

[ausastronomer]

Dennis,

That's an awesome image, one of the best I have seen of this area. Under those conditions you probably could have got a good shot of the Alpine Rille also, another nearby challenging target visually and photographically.

CS-John B

[asimov]

Awesome Dennis!!!

[mickoking]

Top shot Dennis :thumbsup: Makes me want to check out the moon more often.

[davidpretorius]

ice should allowed expletives on special occassions so i can express what i want to express on how good this is.!!!

awesome

[Dennis]

Hi John

Thanks!....and....funny you should mention that...here is a stitched and cropped image of Plato and the Alpine Valley. The rille is barely visible and I have noticed that some other avi's I captured on the same evening seem to suffer low contrast? This could be the result of sub-optimal capture parameters.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Great mosaic Dennis! Just lovely.

[davidpretorius]

"houston, we are nearing the landing spot, hang on two ticks while i take a shot with my canon 5d out the window............."

[ving]

awsome!!!!
really good moon pics there dennis :)

[67champ]

Totally Awesome!!!! Yes I agree, WOW is in order....!

dt

[[1ponders]]

Fantastic mosaic Dennis. Looks like another one off to the mags hey?