[Dennis]

Hello,

More Lunar images from 2:00 to 4:30am, Friday, December 23rd 2005, Brisbane.

Hope I am not getting too boring with the spate of Lunar images of recent days, the steady skies are just too good to pass up. I’m getting a bit frazzled now, running on 3 hours sleep each day. Reminds me of the Monty Python Viking Song:

CHORUS:
I’m an Astronomer, and I’m OK;
I image all night and process all day!

Archimedes, Aristarcus, Clavius, Copernicus, Plato, Rupes Recta, Triesnecker & Tycho.

Equipment details:
Celestron C9.25
TeleVue x2.5 PowerMate
Philips ToUcam
Takahashi EM200 mount
JMI NGFS motofocus

Imaging details:
Acquired with K3CCDTools
1/25 sec
10fps
1800 frames
Images are sub-sets of between 300 and 1200 frames stacked.
Stacked withRegistax3 and saved as bmp's
Converted to jpg’s (40% compression) in Corel PhotoPaint 12

Aristarcus appears “flat” as it was not on the terminator and the Sun’s rays are illuminating it from directly above. A few clouds passed over during the capture of the avi so it’s a little washed out.

Cheers

Dennis