Moon 24-12-09

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

Trying out the Focal reducer with the Celestron Neximage CCD. This allowed me to take the full pic in about 19 slices. Rookie mistake I didn't overlap in one spot perfectly so I have a fault that ruins an otherwise nice picture. (still better luck/skill next-time!) C9.25, Neximage+reducer, lightly processed in registrax (200-250 frames per pic), Software adjust to contrast/brightness (next time i might try a filter) and then CS4 with a touch of the Topaz filter.

Seasons greets to all Have a happy Xmas.

Paul

[Liz]

Nice one Paul, very sharp

[firstlight (Tony)]

Not a montage unless you miss some data

Cool montage.

Tony

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Good one Paul, everyone must miss som sometime, i know I have twice recently. Keep it up.

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

Thanks for the encouragement guys, It"s still damm annoying all the time to process and take the pics and then you assemble it and there's that gap

Ill be checkimg it twice in future (just like Santa's list ).

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hey Paul, it is not a gap - it is the lunar monolith!

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

Thanks Matt i had several suggestions that this was Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One, or TMA-1.