Crater Gassendi with a QHY5

[cybereye]

Hello!

As it's getting towards a Full Moon, I thought I'd get the QHY5 out and about and image parts of the Moon. My target tonight was Crater Gassendi as it has a lot of interesting features within the crater itself. It also gave me a chance to try out my new electronic focuser! I used a 2x Barlow which gave me about f/14...

The resultant picture was the best 1000 frames of a 1500 frame avi stacked in Registax6. I then applied wavelets within Registax6 and then did some further processing within StarTools and PS.

I'm happy with this image as focus was as good as it gets!

Cheers,
Mario

[bkm2304]

Looks very good, Mario. Your focus is great and the sky must have been steady to get such sharp shadows on the mountain peaks in the crater.

Richard

[Shiraz]

Fine image Mario. QHY5 sure is good for lunar - lots of pixels. Regards Ray

[cybereye]

Ray, Richard,

Thanks for the compliments - I'm always happy to accept them!! :D

Cheers,
Mario

[niko]

awesome photo!

8" newt on an HEQPro5 is a good achievement too - that must be close to max capacity?

niko

[multiweb]

This is a great shot Mario. Top stuff with the QHY5. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: