I haven't had a lot of opportunity to get the scope out since Lostock but I got it the other night (8th). The moon was pretty bright so I thought I'd shoot the moon even though the seeing wasn't good. It was pretty breezy...
I've just processed some of the video I shot, and considering how jelly-like the moon was at the time, it's been an interesting exercise to extract some images. They aren't too flash, quite heavily processed for my liking, but considering the conditions I'm pretty happy with the result.
Both images taken with ToUcam at prime focus of my C8 at f10, FL=2032mm, 10fps, autoexposure, about 1500 frames captured with K3CCD tools, stacked and wavelets in Registax, unsharp mask and cropping in Photoshop.
Mare Cognitum:
Top left is Bullialdus, overexposed, hint of central peak. Note the maze of ridges to the right of Lubiniezky E and Darney C. Centre right is Montes Riphaeus, and at the bottom of the frame is Lansberg and its offspring. Looks to be a few hills and domes in this region. Also a lot of lunar exploration activity here with Surveyor 3, Ranger 7 (crash landed), and Apollo 12 and 14 all in this area.
Mare Imbrium:
Bottom left are Le Verrier and Helicon. Near the terminator to their right are ridge where Sinus Iridum joins the Mare. Following the ridge and the terminator up sees the leading edge of Herschel C. The ridges then curve around towards Lambert (top left). In the top right corner is Euler. The little crater in the middle of the frame is Carlini. Unfortunately quite few of the apparent domes in this shot are really craters such as Carlini A, Laplace A and Euler H... oh, well... you get that with poor seeing and a lot of processing!
Looking forward to a steady, dry night when I don't have to get up early the next day...
