Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina

[Stephen65]

This is a mosaic of three images taken last Sunday with my FLT132, SPC900NC and TV 5x powermate, about 400 captures per image stacked in Registax and tuned in AstraImage and GIMP. What motivated me to was the strange fist-like look to the central peaks in Theophilus:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3...aic6du0wm1.jpg

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice image, Stephen! Excellent magnification and detail for a fairly small aperture!

[John K]

Nice going Stephen, as Mike said for such small aperture great image there.

[Dietmar]

you are right! i see what you mean!

great result!

[Stephen65]

Thanks guys, ordinarily using the 5x powermate on the Moon doesn't offer any improvement over the 3x - image is larger but its usually softer and less contrasty and overall less attractive but this night the seeing was above average and the extra magnification was worthwhile.