Luna: Big, Hi-res Copernicus - 02/09/2006

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all.

Here's my last image from the session on the 2nd September. The seeing wasn't quite up to the large image scale, but fleeting moments of sharpness kept me hoping the final image would turn out ok.

Here's a hi-res mosaic of Copernicus, assembled out of 6 avi's, processed using 45 alignment points in Registax4beta, additional processing in AstraImage and Photoshop.

Not quite as sharp as I'd hoped it would turn out, but the low sun angle reveals many small features of interest. I wish I'd taken more coverage of the domes area in the top left hand corner, but that will have to remain a project for next time.

The attached version is a 800px wide reduced (resolution and quality) version - click here to see the full 1280px wide image. (500k jpeg)

Remember to click the "expand" button when your browser resizes it.

Thanks for looking, coments welcome.

[asimov (John)]

Geepers! Can you get in a bit closer or what!!!!?

That is hi-rez at its bezt!

[h0ughy (David)]

now what would you do with a bigger scope Mike!

[Dennis]

Hi Mike

Excellent image. Just lacks that "extra zing" you normally produce, presumably ever so slightly soft due to the unstable seeing you describe? However, a big, bold image no doubt.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys, and you're right Dennis, just too much image scale for the conditions.

now what would you do with a bigger scope Mike!

Get a bigger image, Dave! Well, bigger image scale when seeing permits.

[33South (Chris)]

Thats unusual, on my monitor the image came out very dark but I loaded it into Irfranview (all Ive got at work) upped the gamma. Now I can see all the detail, nice complex mountains to the right of the crater.