A bit more moon

 A couple of days later and a few more pics of La Luna. I found a new piece of processing software called Astrosurface. There are a few YouTube videos and was quite easy to pick up and produce some really nice details. 

Springtime Galaxies

The clear nights are so few and far between. I have been desperate to update some of the older images from my collection, Last imaged 10 years ago and really not that good.

A minute collection of data here as the clouds rolled in again. Had a few issues with the guiding and binned a large amount of subs. My error though. I had left the guiding set to Lunar DOH........

So in all I have just 10 x 5 minutes Red, 4 x 5 minutes Green & just 3 x 5 minutes in Blue.

Quite pleased that there are over a 100 faint fuzzies in the frame.

Another month goes by

So another month goes by and just one night for me of clear sky for some imaging, the current project is M96 and associated galaxies in the field of view, more on that to follow. But for now a full moon passes and a new moon offers fleeting new views. I say new views as a new neighbour a few doors down the road has cut down a a large number of trees from his back garden offering me a long missed sight of setting the new moon and Venus. Whilst dodging clouds I managed a few video captures and after a run through Autostakkert and Registax for Wavelet processing.  

This image is a composite of 2 images both the best 100 frames from a 500 frame AVI at the 1080 resolution from the ASIair Pro video capture.

Reducing the resolution does increase the frame rate but on a camera that is a full res 6 frames a second I am not expecting amazing results from a 2 minute capture. But here we go a couple of images of some lovely craters. 

Patavius is the large crater here at a 177 km in diameter and a depth of 3.4km. The multiple central peaks extend nearly 2km high.

I also had a few minutes to capture a quick video of Venus flickering like a jewel as it dropped into the trees. Stellarium shows a just under 80% disc illumination. My image shows the same. Not bad for about 100 frames stacked.