Around 4:00am the seeing must have hit 9/10 on the Pickering scale 'cos I could easily see the 4 craterlets in Plato on the avi as it was running. I punched the avi through Registax and used Wavelets 1:25 2:15 and 3:10 to bring out some other ones on the floor.
I hope someone was imaging Jupiter 'cos I was so intoxicated with the Moon I forgot and didn’t point the C9.25 to Jove until twilight.
I almost packed up around 1:00am 'cos I was getting savaged by mossies and I forgot to switch on the Kendrick dew heater, even though I had fitted it to the OTA.
The SCT corrector dewed up, even with a dew shield and I had to scrabble around in the bathroom to find a hair dryer to clear the corrector plate.
This is too hard I thought, so I made myself a coffee, found that inner peace once more and then got back down to work.
That's an awesome image, one of the best I have seen of this area. Under those conditions you probably could have got a good shot of the Alpine Rille also, another nearby challenging target visually and photographically.
That's an awesome image, one of the best I have seen of this area. Under those conditions you probably could have got a good shot of the Alpine Rille also, another nearby challenging target visually and photographically.
CS-John B
Hi John
Thanks!....and....funny you should mention that...here is a stitched and cropped image of Plato and the Alpine Valley. The rille is barely visible and I have noticed that some other avi's I captured on the same evening seem to suffer low contrast? This could be the result of sub-optimal capture parameters.
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