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Old 06-03-2008, 11:47 PM
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Thanks Craig, the telescope is a Takahashi Mewlon 250, which is a 10" Dall Kirkham folded reflector.

You wouldn't see that much detail through an eyepiece though, each of those images is a composite of the best couple of hundred frames from around 1500 frames taken using a CCD webcam. The best frames are then stacked to average out the effect of atmospheric turbulence and the detail enhanced using wavelet sharpening and LR deconvolution.

There's a good article on this site by Mike Salway which explains the process, albeit in the context of imaging Jupiter, but lunar imaging is similar save that you do it in black and white:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...63,306,0,0,1,0
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