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Old 23-01-2008, 03:01 PM
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First Moon Images With DMK

I finally had the chance to use my DMK on the Moon last night. I very happy with the results. I finally got the DMK to shoot at 60fps. It really helps to beat the seeing.

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Celestron 8SE SCT f/10 - 2000mm
DMK 21AU04.AS at 60fps
Processed with R4

Can anyone tell me what crater I captured in the first image.
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Old 23-01-2008, 03:27 PM
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Nice results, but the full moon isn't the best time to try and image the moon at high res Wait until you get some contrast during the waning phases and the detail will really pop out.

It's Tycho in the first shot.
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Old 23-01-2008, 06:21 PM
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Matty,

Great job. You must be glad you picked the DMK now over a webbie I'm sure.

Yep, full moon is a bugger - not much depth in the pics. It gets much better when the shadows kick in. I just sometimes slew around with the image (easier than being under the scope sometimes!).

Just one tip, you've clipped in to the white a bit on some of these pics. You just need to crank the gain down a tiny bit more to ensure you don't saturate the white bits.

It's pretty easy at full moon not to have enough gain to drop too. I found I was at the lowest gain setting last night, and had to reduce my exposure times in order to stop it clipping (admittedly my max frame rate is 30fps, with your cam you get to go much faster)

Did you stay up a bit later for Saturn?


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Old 23-01-2008, 06:52 PM
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Did you stay up a bit later for Saturn?


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I sure did. Have a look in the Solar System forum.

BTW thanks for the tip.
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