Some classical lunarscapes

[Dennis]

Hello,

Here are some classical lunarscapes from a night where the seeing was quite good. The evening was interspersed with bands of clouds and although plenty of fine detail was visible, the image on the Notebook display looked as if I was looking at it through a thin layer of flowing water.:(

However, AviStack 2.0 took care of the AVI’s and the batch mode on default settings produced some nice results.:)

Thanks for looking!

Cheers

Dennis

[John K]

Those are awesome shots Denis!, flicking through your photos was a like a tour of the moon. Looks like you had some nice seeing. Any shots of Jupiter?

Really like the shot which shows the Apollo 15 landing site - the ultimate test with seeing for me is always the 2km wide crater at the edge of Hadley Rille visited by the Apollo 15 astronauts which you have clearley captured - also the rille in the Alpine Valley which you also captured.

John.

[Saturn%5]

Those are great shots Dennis :thumbsup:

[mswhin63]

Really good stuff, nice detail AVIStack really does a good job.

[RobF]

Amazing pics Dennis. Thanks for sharing. We really should pay our local neighbour more astrophotographic attention. Was that with the Mewlon? How many frames per image would you have taken roughly?

[Dennis]

Here is a “find the segment” lunar disc, care of Lunar Map Pro V4 and a bit of PS magic!;)

Cheers

Dennis

[Shiraz]

Excellent work Dennis. Regards Ray

[Dennis]

Thanks John!

I did slew to Jupiter in between cloud gaps but the image on the screen looked a little shabby, as Jove was still relatively low. The on-screen image was approximately 1/3 to ½ the apparent size compared to the state of the art images posted here by the likes of Trevor (Quark), Paul Haese, Anthony (Bird) and your good self, so I slewed back to the Moon!;)

It seems that the goal posts have shifted since I last did any hi-res imaging a few years ago!:)

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Thank you Graeme and Malcolm, I appreciate your comments.:)

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Thanks Rob! I punched all the AVI’s through the batch process of AVIStack V2 so I don’t know how many frames were selected for stacking for each image.

Each AVI was 2000 frames and I was shooting at 30fps, 1/30 sec with the gain set at approx 400. Looking at the output, I suspect that AVIStack was probably finding between 400 and maybe 700 frames, based on my past experience with manual processing using AVIStack V1.8

Cheers

Dennis



Thanks Ray - I appreciate your comments!

Cheers

Dennis

[Clayton]

Great stuff Dennis.
Sorry I missed this earlier.

[michaellxv]

Very impresssive Dennis. They have all come up really well.

[iceman]

Stunning set of images. Inspires me!

[Dennis]

Thanks Rob, Michael and Mike – I appreciate your comments. I have enjoyed some wonderful moments of good seeing which has been much enjoyed!

Get out there Mike - I know you want to!;)

Cheers

Dennis

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Dennis
These are awesome images - absolutely stunning!

[cybereye]

Dennis,

These are truly amazing images - fantastic.

Cheers,
Mario

[Dennis]

Thank you Matt and Mario - much appreciated!

Cheers

Dennis

[naskies]

Very nice!

[midnight]

Really enjoying your lunar series Dennis!!

Darrin...

[Dennis]

Thank you Dave and Darrin – the Moon is a wonderfully accommodating subject!:)

Cheers

Dennis