Mare Crisium Flyover, Petavius and Messier’s A & B under excellent seeing

[Dennis]

Here are a few lunar images taken under excellent seeing conditions around twilight in Brisbane on 7th Nov 2013. All taken with the Mewlon 180 F12, Tak x1.6 Extender and ASI120MM CCD camera.

It was really quite special watching these AVI’s being recorded, as the conditions were the best I have seen this year.

Cheers

Dennis

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely sharp detail in those shots, Dennis

[EricB (Eric)]

Beautiful shots Dennis. Well done!

Eric

[h0ughy (David)]

wow look at the detail. that first oine is something special

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

These pictures are excellent. I bet if you overlay an Apollo command module on them no one would be able to tell if it was a fake. Well maybe not...no one. Everyone on facebook though yeah.

[John Hothersall]

Ripples on Mess A+B are awesome. You got Humboldt crater at the limb in the Petavius image which is a good catch and an interesting terraced crater librated on the disc.

John.

[gregbradley]

Remarkably sharp and detailed shots.

Greg.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Fantastic details, it's looking very good. It really does feel like a flyover of the lunar landscape. Great work Dennis

[Dennis]

Thanks Laurie, Eric, David, Adrian, John, Greg & Rolf, I appreciate your comments.

Thanks for the ID’s John – I haven’t had my Rukl out for a while now so I’m a bit rusty.!

The seeing wasn’t quite excellent, so I resampled from the native 1280x960 down to 800x600 and this has tightened them up to make them pop a little more.

By the way Greg, it’s good to see you marathon, multi-week exposure, Deep Sky LRGB guys dropping into the sub-millisecond sub forums every once in a while!

Cheers

Dennis

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Great shots!

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

indeed a pleasure to see such clear, great shots

[CJ (Chris)]

Wow! Stunning.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

My goodness

They're unbelievable, Great work Dennis

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Nice work on these Dennis. Nicely controlled highlights and dynamic range.
Ted

[White Rabbit]

Really nice shots there. Almost looks like an arial fly by.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Man these are good Dennis, they are so crisp without that double image look that hard processing of poorer seeing data can impart

Mike

[Paul Haese]

Seeing is King. Superb imagery Dennis. Good processing too. Crisp, making me want to get out and do some planetary again.

[Dennis]

Thanks Stefan, Narayan, Chris, Rod, Ted, White Rabbit, Michael and Paul, I appreciate your comments.

Apart from the really excellent seeing, I think that capturing these under twilight conditions has also helped reduce the harsh contrast. Along with the large number of frames I was able to stack, the conditions have contributed to the smoothness of the data.

Cheers

Dennis

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Wow Dennis, you have really set the benchmark now for that camera. I'm gonna have to pull my sox up a bit too even come close to that.
Well done indeed !!

[iceman (Mike)]

Well done Dennis, superb images.