It's been a while since I grabbed some lunar images and with the continued poor seeing I thought "why not"???
The 8-day moon offers some interesting imaging opportunities, particularly along the terminator.
Here's:
1. The region containing craters Eudoxus, Aristoteles, Cassini and Theaetetus, as well as Mt Piton, The Alpine Valley and the Caucasus Mts.
2. The Appennine Mts in sharp relief, with shadows cast from the peaks.
3. A mystery crater. Not sure which one, but I was fascinated by the closely bunched central peaks on the crater floor. I'm sure one of our resident moon experts can identify this one.
4. And because I couldn't help myself, a quick Jupiter.
Pics 1 and 2 were taken at the prime focus of the C9.25 - no barlow. Pic 3 was taken with the 3x Televue barlow. All images taken with the DMK 21AF04.
Really looking forward to my new filters arriving and perhaps some nice early spring seeing.
Brilliant set Matt. The Jupiter image is not too shabby at all.. considering seeing etc. I should have pointed my scope there on sunday night but I was rather enthralled with my deep sky shots... (I would have done better sticking to what I know I think )
... that's very good.
but I've been busy getting jobs out of the way before my POD arrives
... it'll be a different story then...
)
