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Old 07-05-2020, 03:12 PM
Stefan Buda
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Reiner Gamma and Marius Hills

It's been a while since I posted any images.

Some people may think that lunar imaging is easy, and that is true for capturing random features at medium resolution, but if you are going after some particular feature at high resolution, things become rather difficult.

For many features the best illumination angle lasts for just one day per lunar cycle, and that means about a dozen nights a year. But high res imaging doesn't work at low celestial altitude and one will loose half of those nights to the inclination of the ecliptic. The remaining six or so nights are very likely to be lost to bad weather or seeing, so it's no wonder that it took me about two years to finally capture the Marius Hills area.

The seeing was rather ordinary and the high clouds didn't help either.

This is 4 panel panorama captured with my D-K 405 and ASI120.
The image has been down-sampled to 50%.
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Last edited by Stefan Buda; 07-05-2020 at 08:32 PM.
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