Hello,
I was out on Friday night (15th Aug) for a brief imaging session to play with the new, beaut DMK31 recently acquired from those nice folks at BinTel. The seeing was generally quite poor so I decided to shoot at prime focus, as when I fitted a Barlow or PowerMate, the images on screen were just not worth recording.
Here are the only two lunar shots that were worth punching through Registax, where I used the auto select alignment points and R4 selected 17 & 24 MAPs. Towards the end of the session, I slewed to Jupiter and banged off a couple of AVI’s and here is the result of one of those taken with an x3 TeleVue Barlow.
Not pretty, but it was quite an enjoyable session; just being outside listening to the sweet sound of the mount purring along with the neighbourhood bathed in the eerie glow of reflected moonlight was somehow quite pleasant and relaxing, if a little cold!
I’ve included a full moon mosaic from a previous effort, showing the relative location of the two regions, as well as Copernicus and Plato from a
previous imaging session with the DMK31 and Mewlon 180 F12 at prime focus.
Cheers
Dennis