Tycho

Captured on the evening of the 25th July. I love tracing the ejecta rays from the 108 million year old Tycho. I get the impression of a near verticle impact from the ejecta dispersion that can be traced across every quadrant of the moon.

Schiller.

   The somewhat unusual is the crater Schiller. A fusion of two craters with a meteor strike at a very shallow angle. Captured here using the many time mentioned EOS Record. Capturing a live view zoomed avi. Processed in Regitax 6 and 10 iterations using an adaptive Richardson Lucy deconvolution filter.

    Seeing was poor at best and sun's angle of illumination angle gave poor contrast. Although the perfect angle to highlight one rim in shadow. The Rim is well defined and a pair of ridges on the lava flooded floor are easily visible.

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.

Moon Mosaic no2

Typical ! I have the week off for half term and I feel lousy. Hot & cold sweats, blocked then runny everything. Just stuffed up and a headache this morning. They kids have had a movie morning watching some Disney classics. While 2 computers processed a ton of frames. 24 images make up this wonderful moon mosaic. I used the same technique as described before using EOS live record. I kept the camera on the same plane as I recorded each AVI. My attempt was to capture the whole moon but looks like I missed a couple of sections. So here is a crop of the best part of the image. Stacked in Registax 6 and the same wavelet sharpening on each frame was used. Photoshop then used to align the frames. No colour correction or other processing used. I know it is not perfect as my 2x Barlow claims it ED but I always get colour fringing on one side of the image. Considering it is only a 90mm refractor. I am quite pleased with the result.

By Jove

My imaging set up is not designed for planetary imaging. But I couldnt resist having a go at the true king of the planets Jupiter. Taken with my 90mm refractor with the DSLR attatched to a 2 x barlow using 5 x live view magnification and video recording a stack of 500 frames aligned and stacked in registax. Wavelet sharpening and thats it. By no means an image of quality compared to some of the dedicated planetary imagers out there. I might have a go with our societies planetary imager on the 20". I will post the resulting image when it happens.