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Old 18-08-2010, 11:05 PM
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Lunar crater close ups

SPX350 F19.9 with 3xTV Barlow, EQ6, DMK21AF, Astrodon Red filter.

With above average seeing for once I gave the Moon a couple of hours as it looked occassionally quite good with quick flashes of fine detail in the image seeing vibration - JetStream seems to be further South than usual.

Images are nowhere near the best but good enough to show as past month and a half seeing has been poor or average. Stacked 900 out of 3600 frames at 30fps with gain about 400-600. Used AviStack 1.8 and Regx5 for wavelets finishing in PS.

Thanks, John.
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Old 18-08-2010, 11:15 PM
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Nice photos.

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Old 18-08-2010, 11:25 PM
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Nice and sharp John. It must be good to have the jet stream settling down.
Why the red filter?
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Old 18-08-2010, 11:59 PM
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Nice images John.
First one looks like a flyby.
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Old 19-08-2010, 12:07 AM
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Wow, Nice Images, John. I especially like the first one
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Old 19-08-2010, 12:42 AM
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They look great John!! Wonderful to see some differejnt craters and angles on teh Moon, and 1 is great.
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Old 19-08-2010, 03:13 PM
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Thanks guys and gals, seeing was occassionally quite good but did deteriorate over the 2 hours I spent.

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Why the red filter?
Well David I use a red filter when seeing is above avg but not great as it cuts down the seeing movement, and I use green filter when seeing is good-vgood and Lum or no filter when seeing is excellent which hardly happens. The red filter still gives a good frame rate of 30fps at long fl if not to close to terminator.

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Old 19-08-2010, 03:23 PM
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Great shot, John

They would make great examples of lunar geology to teach 1st years with, especially about crater morphology and formation processes.
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Old 19-08-2010, 07:01 PM
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Lovely set of images John!
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Old 19-08-2010, 08:41 PM
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Those pic are good, very good.
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Wow! That's awesome. Good tip with the filters.
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Old 20-08-2010, 08:13 AM
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Very nice, sharp and detailed images John. Thanks for the views.
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Old 20-08-2010, 08:16 AM
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Straight to the pool room with these. Very well executed indeed.
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Old 20-08-2010, 10:56 AM
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these are amazing John - very well done indeed

sometimes (many times) I just marvel at what we are able to photograph of space from our tiny little rock hurtling through space

mind blowing really

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Old 20-08-2010, 10:49 PM
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Some fn awesome images mate, I'm jealous. Wish I had the time to play....

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Old 20-08-2010, 11:05 PM
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John, these images are impressive - especially the first one. Best I've seen in a while.....

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