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Old 03-10-2006, 11:23 PM
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Crater Hainzel

Thanks for the previous moon image comments guys. As you can tell I am really putting my scope and webcam on a bit of a moon workout at the moment. The moon is overhead, the ice packs are chilling my mirror close to ambient, and the seeing is way above average for Melbourne.

I had never observed this crater before and it just looked amazing in the laptop screen as I was scanning for targets. Virtual Lunar Atlas describes it as: "Lenghtened formation. Composes a complex formation with Hainzel A and C with identical size. Very steep slopes to the South. High walls crushed to the North-East by Hainzel C and to the North by Hainzel A. Very tormented floor."

100 frames stacked and processed in Registax, LR Decomvolution in Astra Image and mild unsharp masking in Photoshop.

I would say my best image of the moon so far due it it very smooth appearance.

Comments welcome!

John.
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