Some moon shots with Toucam 12th October

Garyh · #1 14-10-2008, 01:42 PM

Hi Folks,
Here is a few moon shots done two nights back. Seeing was average but improved rapidly before the whole sky fogged over. These are done with my 6" newt with 3x barlow and 840k Toucam. Best 60 frames stacked out of a average of 1200. Just cleaned up the edges in PS and a little bit of contrast.
I rather like the shot of the craters Schickard and Phocylides..(3rd image)
Enjoyed doing some lunar shots as the seeing has been that crappy lately I havn`t bothered for some time.
cheers Gary...

RB (Andrew) · #2 14-10-2008, 01:56 PM

Beautiful shots Gary !

The tonal range looks fantastic on my monitor.

iceman (Mike) · #3 14-10-2008, 02:03 PM

Nice shots Gary, good control of the highlights especially with Aristarchus.

My favourite is the last one but the framing could be a little better.

nice work.

Garyh · #4 14-10-2008, 05:02 PM

Thanks Andrew and Mike!
I did a bunch more but these were the last ones before the fog got too thick and the seeing settled. The others are pretty ordinary...
But glad to get a few ok ones...
8" mirror shall be back next week from the coaters so I shall be eager to see how well it does to the 6"..

thanks for the comments guys

cookie8 (Vincent) · #5 14-10-2008, 08:53 PM

Very nice images Garyh. 6" !! Wow. I like the first and third. The shadowing is just right to highlight those walled plains .

h0ughy (David) · #6 14-10-2008, 11:44 PM

nice shots Gary!