No deep sky for a week or two.

Although the moon is the bain of us deep sky imagers, we unfortunately cannot get away from it. So rather than moan about it I thought I would take advantage on a rare clear night. Using a 2x Barlow and the 40D. I use a programme I have mentioned a few times before called EOS movie record to record an HD video than can be stacked in Registax.

I have spent a great deal of time perfecting a wavelet algorithm to give the right amount of sharpness against the often seen over saturation into noise.


Mistaken by early astronomers as seas they were dubbed maria Latin for "Seas".
These Basalt plains were formed 3 to 4 billion years ago as lava flows erupted over the cooling surface of the moon.You can see clearly area of thicker magma that give the appearance of rivers flowing through the plains. The 8-9 largest craters you see are all between 70-100 miles wide. The light across the terminator has illuminated the back walls of several craters.
These walls are on average 10,000 feet high.
The areas are less reflective than the Highlands and thus appear darker.