Showing posts with label Lunar craters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lunar craters. Show all posts

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Recent Lunar Images 10/03/2023

The following lunar images were taken of the waning gibbous Moon just after midnight. Optical configuration Celestron 8 + diagonal. ASI178MC was camera used at 800x600 RAW16 space at 60fps. Each image was averaged with Autostakkert!3 from the best 2500 of 5000 frames taken. Wavelet sharpening done in Paintshop Pro via script by this writer. In the future 800x600 RAW8 will be tested for a higher frame rate. Update: Images reprocessed to remove excessively warm image tone.

Cauchy, Lawrence, Da Vinci craters area

Cyrillus and Theophilus craters

Fracastorius crater area

Hercules & Atlas craters

Hommel crater area

Janssen crater area

Leaky crater area

Lyell & Franz craters area

Miraldi crater area

Montes & Pyrenaeus craters area

Moretus crater area

Posidonius crater area

Piccolomini crater area

Tarantius & Zahringer

Vitruvius & Gardner craters


Saturday, August 1, 2020

Recent Lunar Images 07/29/2020

These are my first lunar craters imaged with the new ASI178MC camera. Imaging format was 1600x1200. However, in the future, imaging format will likely be reduced, perhaps to 800x600 to focus in on specific craters and increase frames per second rate. A thousand frames were collected using SharpCap, 25% stacked in Autostakkert!3 and wavelet sharpened with Registax 6. 

Tycho Area

Plato Area

Copernicus Area

Clavius Area

Bullialdus Area