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Originally Posted by glend
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NASA does everything better. Still, I'm curious if this sort of thing is even in range of amateur scopes.
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Originally Posted by Saturnine
Fine image of Crisium, what scope was used. Curious as imaged the same region and others on the same night, going by the terminator location. My seeing wasn't much good but managed a reasonable stack.
As for meteor strikes on the moon, flashes have been reported by astronomers over the years and I recall seeing an image of a flash in a book or magazine years ago but can't remember any details of where and when. Would be a matter of blind luck to capture anything.
The time and resources required for an automated camera imaging the moon every night it is up and it is clear skies in the resolution required would be a very limiting factor.
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Thanks, it was an RC10, powermate 2x with an ASI290. 60 seconds stacked (AS + PS). Seeing wasn't much chop for me either. I think most of the detail that was only occasionally glimpsed has come out in the photo. Field was slightly too narrow to get the compsition I wanted, but hey.
Re meteors; I guess I'm just thinking that meteors occurr on earth regularly. Every meteor that hits the moon must make a crater. The question then is what percentage of these hits are big enough to be observable from earth-bound telescopes, how often they occur and whether it's possible to distinguish smaller impacts from noise (the smaller the detectable impact, the more likelihood of recording an impact at all as there are more smaller meteors than big ones).
And yes, it would just be for interest rather than contributing to science since Nasa have their grubby little blue-latex-gloved hands all over this, as noted by GlenD. But then, they take better pictures of stars and planets too, but it's not going to stop me from trying. :-)
Cheers
Markus
