Moon with short FL

[mswhin63]

Hi All,

480mm is pushing the limits of AP, but managed a reasonable effort on Friday as it is only time without homework and a break in the weather. Clouds are back again so I think there is limit again on imaging for a while.

Webcam 1600 x 1200 resolution @ 5 fps.
80mm triplet 480mm FL F5
Double Polarizing Filter
IR Filter
SharpCap software
Seeing 4/10 due to moon dropping into Kwinana industrial area (24 hour a day pollution).

http://www.waelect.com.au/mswhin63/Moon%20-%20Full%20View/index.html#2011_08_05.png is the high res version

This was also an experiment in processing as well and even with the new Registax AVIStack is still far easier and just as accurate.

[midnight]

The weather over here has been ordinary hasn't it. At least ye ol Moon is a quick and reliable target when all else fails.

Nice image Malcolm esp down near the bottom which appears a little sharper there than the top.

Darrin...

[iceman]

Nice image Malcolm!

[mswhin63]

Thanks Mike.

Thanks Darrin, The weather I think is about the same as last year, not a lot of imaging time. Although I personally like the winter, I can't wait for Spring t come.
I think the sharpness issue is to do with merging 2 images. using iMerge. I think the overlap is quite excessive and is showing the turbulence between the 2 images. Next time I think I will shoot the video a bit differently.

[Shiraz]

Good image Malcolm.

[michaellxv]

Nice work Malcolm.

[mswhin63]

Thanks Ray, Michael.

I noticed something that may require a repo, the turbuence was quite high and merging 2 images I may have had too much overlap so the fuzziness might be due to the cross over. Will try to cut off a bit of one image then try merging them to see if it will improve.

[jjjnettie]

Very nice indeed.