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!
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.
Top stuff, Dennis! I'm just starting with a ToUcam... it's great to see what it can do. Its inpiring, and it helps us newbies to get a handle on how to do it better.
Excellent images Denis, great resolution and exposures. Very good stuff. Good seeing makes all the difference. Well done.
Got it in one Paul - I was out again this morning and as a "stand alone" observation, I would normally have said that the seeing was great. But, compared to the previous 2 nights, it appeared quite average so I guess I have been very spoiled!
I have also been very fortunate to have the week off work so made the most of this rare seeing opportunity. Most importantly, I have a very understanding and astronomy friendly wife who has barely seen me for 3 days.
Most importantly, I have a very understanding and astronomy friendly wife who has barely seen me for 3 days.
man I gotta get me one of those ... only joking of course, my lovely wife has been very tolerant of my pursuit of the important things in life like new scopes, TV powermates etc... and I can do as much astronomy as I like so long as she doesn't catch me doing it (hence the early morning shift is popular)
These are Beautiful Dennis very crisp and clear and some great material - what's the one with ray material and what looks like a larva flow channel?
Hi Rob
Oops…must have missed responding to this query. The second image top row is Aristarcus, a really interesting area on the Moon. It's a tough image to get just right due to the tremendous variation in brightness across the frame.
I think the lava flow is sometimes referred to as the Cobra's head due to its appearance.
Wonderful array of lunar images again Dennis, great detail and good capture with Aristarchus which is tricky because its so bright
