Lunar Images (02/07/2025)

With moon near zenith a good evening for a little lunar imaging. Format 800x600 raw16 with Celestron 8/SCT+ASI178MC at prime focus. Stack averaging from 3000 frames. Wavelet sharpening with script written by author.  Post processing with Paintshop Pro. As an aside wavelet script was recently upgraded with parameter input dialogs that allow me to vary the brightness and contrast, number of sharpening cycles, wavelet radius, strength and gauss radius. 

Bullialdus

Clavius

Copernicus

Kies, Mercator, Capuanus, Cichus

Lambert, Pytheas

Montes Recti

Plato

Reinhold

Recent Lunar Craters - 4 (4/20/2024)

Prime focus Celestron 8/AVX, ZWO ASI178MC, 3000 800x600 subframes stack averaged with Autostakkert! Wavelet sharpening with Paintshop Pro script.

Billy, Hansteen

Craters Gassendi & Mercenius

Herodotus, Aristarchus

Vittello, Lee, Doppelmayer

Schickard

Recent Lunar Craters -3 (4/18/2024)

Prime focus Celestron 8/AVX, ZWO ASI178MC, Stack averaged 3000 800x600 subframes by Autostakkert! Wavelet sharpening by Paintshop Pro script. 

Bullialdus, Konig, Kies, Mercator, Campanus

Cichus, Capuanus, Mercator.

Clavius

Copernicus

Eratosthenese

Lansburg, Montes Riphaeus

Montes Recti

Pitatus

Plato

Tycho & Longomontanus

Recent Lunar Craters-2 (4/16/2024)

Prime focus Celestron 8/AVX, ZWO ASI178MC, averaged 3000 800x600 subframes using Autostakkert! Wavelet sharpening with script in Paintshop Pro.

Walther,  Werner, Regiomontanus, Purbach

Arzachel, Alphonsus

Cassini, Valles Alpes

Archimedes.Autolycus.Aristillus

Aliacensis, Werner, Blachinus

Albategnius

Recent (4-15-2024) Lunar Craters - 1

Prime focus Celestron 8/AVX, ZWO ASI178MC, stack average of 3000 800x600 subframes using Autostakkert! Wavelet sharpening with script in Paintshop Pro. 

Sacrobosco, Azophi, Abenezra, Geber

Theophilus, Cyrilius, Catherina

Posidonius

Pinius

Piccolomini

Maurolycus

Julius Caesar, Agrippa

Abenezra, Geber, Almanon, Albufeda

Delambre

Eudoxus, Aristoteles

Jupiter

Averaged with Autostakkert!3 from best 2500 or 5000 subframes from 10000 subframes. Wavelet sharpened with Paintshop Pro 2021.

Jupiter, Io and Great Red Spot

10/05/2023 00:30:44 EDT

Jupiter with GRS and Shadow of Europa
10/2/2023 23:49:33 EDT

10/2/2023 23:54:27

10/2/2023 23:57:40

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