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Old 11-04-2007, 08:12 AM
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Luna: Schiller, Tycho, Plato etc.

Hi all

Here's 6 lunar images taken yesterday morning after my session with Jupiter. The seeing had deteriorated by that stage and the temperature continued to drop, and I had "waves" of bad seeing fluctuating and rolling across the image.

Not to mention, my tracking was horrendous in DEC and I had to constantly keep pressing "up" on the hand controller to keep the feature near the middle of the screen. As a consequence, alignment and stacking was a nightmare and I couldn't align on anything near the edge - resulting in some blurry parts of frame near the edge. Yes, I need to work on my EQ6 alignment

Each image is the result of 5 alignment points stacked in registax, 500 frames on each point (out of 1800 captured (1 minute each feature)). Schiller is a 2-image mosaic as it was too big for one FOV.

Resolution is 214 metres per pixel.

Schiller and Tycho are the best of the bunch, the others are fairly ordinary but it was nice to capture some Luna again.

1. Schiller
2. Tycho
3. Arzachel
4. Plato
5. Davy Crater Chain
6. Copernicus

Thanks for looking.
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