A bit of Clavius from this morning

iceman (Mike) · #1 10-01-2007, 02:30 PM

I only took 2 avi's of the moon this morning, both of them of Clavius. I was working with the 5x powermate so couldn't fit the whole of Clavius in the 640x480 FOV.

I captured 2 parts of it (to make a mosaic), then got frustrated with the drifting and so I went back to Saturn.

Anyway I joined 2 parts, so here's 3/4 of Clavius

Seeing was about 4.5/10, stacked 120 frames on 5-7 alignment points in each avi.

Thanks for looking.

stephenmcnelley · #2 10-01-2007, 03:54 PM

Focus is excellent!!!!! boy that is close and clean considering..

sheeny (Al) · #3 10-01-2007, 04:53 PM

Excellent! Really sharp.

Al.

acropolite (Phil) · #4 10-01-2007, 06:17 PM

Impressive, very sharp Mike

Dennis · #5 10-01-2007, 07:41 PM

Another great image Mike, although the seeing has let you down slightly, for you have produced sharper images than this on those better nights. Having said that, you still seem to have resolved, quite cleanly, a lot of detail. So - well done and thanks for continuing to remind me of what is up there.

Cheers

Dennis

Striker (Tony) · #6 10-01-2007, 08:05 PM

Still a great image Mike.

Well done

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #7 10-01-2007, 08:13 PM

not bad, not bad at all...

Bird

iceman (Mike) · #8 11-01-2007, 05:57 AM

Thanks guys, I haven't done any lunar work in about 2.5 months (!) thanks to the weather, so it was good to capture something again.

I was actually quite pleased with the dynamic range I captured in this image. The histogram was nicely spread across the range with the right shaped bell in the middle. I only clipped a little off each end with Levels in photoshop to add a bit of contrast.

I also used some noise reduction, high pass filter and USM to the image.