[iceman (Mike)]

Yes, it's the moon!

Went out last night for some imaging, but found the seeing to be typically bad. What I have found since, is that it's easier to get a decent image of the moon in bad seeing, than it is to get a decent image of Jupiter in bad seeing.

I took about 25 avi's of the moon last night, but because the seeing was so bad, the processing routine is very lengthy. This is the first finished image (which used 4 of those avi's).

It's the crater Eratosthenes and surrounds.. I love the crater chain off to the right.

I used the 3x barlow, 30fps on the DMK21AF04 and captured about 1000 frames in each avi. My tracking is not very accurate on the moon, so I had to use bits and pieces from the 4 avi's to make up this mosaic.

Processing involved 17 point MAP processing, which has taken 6 hours on and off to finish. The pieces were assembled in photoshop, before being flattened, and taken to AstraImage for LR deconvolution (18 @ 1.6), and finally back to Photoshop for high-pass filtering and levels adjustment.

Very lengthy and time consuming, but it's worth it as the final result is much better than what I would've got with a single run through registax. I can't wait for the next version of registax!

I've got some avi's of this area (as well as Plato and Vallis Alpes) with the 5x powermate as well, will start chugging through them when time permits.

Thanks for looking.