Here are some classical lunarscapes from a night where the seeing was quite good. The evening was interspersed with bands of clouds and although plenty of fine detail was visible, the image on the Notebook display looked as if I was looking at it through a thin layer of flowing water.
However, AviStack 2.0 took care of the AVI’s and the batch mode on default settings produced some nice results.
Those are awesome shots Denis!, flicking through your photos was a like a tour of the moon. Looks like you had some nice seeing. Any shots of Jupiter?
Really like the shot which shows the Apollo 15 landing site - the ultimate test with seeing for me is always the 2km wide crater at the edge of Hadley Rille visited by the Apollo 15 astronauts which you have clearley captured - also the rille in the Alpine Valley which you also captured.
Amazing pics Dennis. Thanks for sharing. We really should pay our local neighbour more astrophotographic attention. Was that with the Mewlon? How many frames per image would you have taken roughly?
I did slew to Jupiter in between cloud gaps but the image on the screen looked a little shabby, as Jove was still relatively low. The on-screen image was approximately 1/3 to ½ the apparent size compared to the state of the art images posted here by the likes of Trevor (Quark), Paul Haese, Anthony (Bird) and your good self, so I slewed back to the Moon!
It seems that the goal posts have shifted since I last did any hi-res imaging a few years ago!
Cheers
Dennis
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Originally Posted by John K
Those are awesome shots Denis!, flicking through your photos was a like a tour of the moon. Looks like you had some nice seeing. Any shots of Jupiter?
Really like the shot which shows the Apollo 15 landing site - the ultimate test with seeing for me is always the 2km wide crater at the edge of Hadley Rille visited by the Apollo 15 astronauts which you have clearley captured - also the rille in the Alpine Valley which you also captured.
Thanks Rob! I punched all the AVI’s through the batch process of AVIStack V2 so I don’t know how many frames were selected for stacking for each image.
Each AVI was 2000 frames and I was shooting at 30fps, 1/30 sec with the gain set at approx 400. Looking at the output, I suspect that AVIStack was probably finding between 400 and maybe 700 frames, based on my past experience with manual processing using AVIStack V1.8
Cheers
Dennis
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Originally Posted by RobF
Amazing pics Dennis. Thanks for sharing. We really should pay our local neighbour more astrophotographic attention. Was that with the Mewlon? How many frames per image would you have taken roughly?
