Crater Taruntius

[alphajuno (Dave)]

After Jupiter started descending on 7/20, I swung over to the rising moon. Crater Taruntius is between the seas of fertility and tranquility. It was taken with a red filter and the 2.5x Powermate.

Thought it would be a nice change of pace!

[AlexN]

Go on... keep rubbing it in that you have clear skies and we dont

Nice pic with plenty of detail... Seems perhaps a little over-processed. maybe just me...

[iceman (Mike)]

Hey Dave. Nice to see something different, but unfortunately it is way too overprocessed - too heavy on the deconvolution.

Less is more

[alphajuno (Dave)]

I tried again. It looked bad to me too, lol. I really love detail way too much. My laptop was unplugged while thunderstorms rolled through so I really hope that had something to do with. Less is more, less is more.

I still used deconvolution but tried ME instead and seven iterations. I may have to mess around with wavelets. I was trying to center the crater but the limb was so dark, some of the trouble may be the leveling I did too.

I just noticed too it gets brighter through the JPEG process so I'm trying to compensate...

Alex,
It may seem like I have clear skies but what I really have are a lot of old avi's to go through, lol. We had our first real hurricane of the season and I'll probably have lots of time to catch up on my processing .

[iceman (Mike)]

That's better, much nicer.

Try imaging crater a bit further away from the terminator where you can get a better spread across the histogram.