Moretus, Curtius and Clavius with Amundsen on the lunar horizon

[Mick (Michael)]

Awesome.

[Robert_T]

Dennis, I keep coming back to this image of yours. I think it's my all time favourite image of anything... and I don't say that lightly. Have you considered the David Malin awards?

cheers,

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'm with you Robert. I keep coming back as well. Dennis it truely is a stunning image. Definately entry into the David Malins.

Ya do know Dennis that if you enter it and win that will make two winning Malin awards that were seen here on Iceinspace first.

Eddie T's "Tarantula Nebula" and your "Moretus, Curtius and Clavius with Amundsen on the lunar horizon"

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by iceman

Incredible detail, clean, crisp and very nicely processed.

Thanks Mike – as you’ve seen from the avi’s that I sent to you, having a good capture is the key as there is very little else to be done after that, the image kind of looks after itself.

Originally Posted by Robert_T

Hey Dennis, I called the kid's over to see this, not something I usually do as they think astronomy is yawnsville. Well they were gob-smacked and thought you must have a way bigger telescope than Dad or be located on a mountain top or somethin... when they discovered you're using the same scope, powermate, same location etc as me... they now seem even less impressed with my efforts than usual. Damn you Dennis

Hey Robert – I can do what I do ‘cos we have no Kids to distract me from quality time at the ‘scope. Besides, you should show them your awesome Mars images and compare them to my pathetic efforts.

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Forget the seeing! Where the hell are you getting clear skies from Dennis. I'm up til at least midnight most nights and it has been the pits here for weeks.

Hi Paul – Most of the good stuff has come from 3:00am onwards. The one night I turned in at midnight Robert captured his stunning Jupiter images. On my 2 magical nights of 4/5th and 18/19th Feb, there was constant intermittent cloud that kept rolling over the avi’s as they were being captured and I almost pulled the plug on the session. Hmm, glad I didn’t now.

Thank you everyone for the nice words of encouragement, they are appreciated. The seeing was so fine on 18/19th Feb that I could easily make out the 4 “large” craters on the floor of Plato on the notebook display as K3CCDTools was capturing an avi.

I acquired the C9.25 and ToUcam in September 2005, inspired by the work of the late Erwin Van der Velden who used the same set up. Of late, we have enjoyed some quite extraordinary nights of good seeing here in Brisbane, evenings that I would normally have characterised as “1 in 5 year” events; but so far, I have enjoyed two such events, on the 4/5th and 18/19th Feb.

Cheers

Dennis

[netwolf]

Wow.. Wow.. Wow..

Its like you have done a flyby of the Moon.. U got your own personal satelaite up there or wot..

Send it in if you havent already to the various mags.. this is gold.

Regards

[asimov (John)]

OMG! that is FANTASTIC!

[67champ]

Unbelievable pic Dennis!!!! Thanks for my new desktop background! :-)
I am sooooo jealous.... This truely is one of the best pictures I've seen on any website since I got back into astronomy in March last year...

dt

[Mikezoom]

Dennis I hate to admit but I already saved it and am using it for my background.... hope you dont mind but it is truly fantastic. I asked my F.I.L if he could tell me when/where it was taken and he was like... "Apollo 9 or 10???" lol

Awsome!

Mike.

[robin]

Thats it ...I quit.Gonna go & join a monastery.This mosaic has just blown my socks off.Fantastic work Dennis.Im gobsmacked...

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Holy cow, that's a fantastic image Dennis! Go you good thing...

Countdown to Rockhampton in May... 66 days. Can't wait!

Bird

[Octane (Humayun)]

Dennis,

There are no superlatives to describe what you've captured here.

I'll simply leave it at "breathtaking".

Congratulations for image of the year, thus far.

Regards,
Humayun