Waning Moon, 4th October

[JamesF]

Had to wait until gone midnight last night for the cloud to clear so I sat outside listening to the rain dripping off the trees whilst taking the subs for this. The seeing seemed very good in terms of transparency, but equally unstable. I shot 120 frames of 1/1000th @ ISO400 using the 450D and 127 Mak, fed them through PIPP and stacked 58 in Registax v6 then tweaked levels a little to brighten the image.

James

[BuzzBomb]

Superb James. A stunner.

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[telesto]

Very nice image James well done

Clive

[ollypenrice]

I'm on my travel screen but that looks sweet as a nut, gently processed an subtle.

Olly

[swaylight]

Lovely pic, great detail, I think i'm going to get the 127 mak in a month or some, to acompany my skywatcher 130P, Great pics though and keep up the good work

[JamesF]

You may need to think about mounts if you're getting a Mak. The much longer focal length and narrower field of view really shows up the wobbles if it's at all under-mounted. It's a great scope for viewing and imaging solar system objects with though. I've had a lot of fun with mine.

James

[northcanadian]

Nice one!!!

[K3ny0n]

Lovely picture, thanks for the heads up on PIPP aswell.

Rob

[Cath]

I love it myself, I like the amount of detail and looks natural

I wish I could get that kind of detail myself.

[si@nite]

Thats a great image! cracking detail.

[JamesF]

I love it myself, I like the amount of detail and looks natural

I wish I could get that kind of detail myself.

I'd have thought you should be able to, Cath. I'm only using a 450D and 127 Mak. I'd imagine putting the 500D on the back of the 6SE should achieve similar results.

James

[Sam]

That's a really nice image. The contrast seems just right and loads and loads of detail.

[Cath]

I'd have thought you should be able to, Cath. I'm only using a 450D and 127 Mak. I'd imagine putting the 500D on the back of the 6SE should achieve similar results.

The main problem is having the chance to get my telescope out, it's been 20 years since I last had a telescope, I get a nice new 6SE earlier this year and have only had it out about 6 times in all either to lack of decent weather or due to circumstances at home which prevent me.

One day though .. or rather evening

[JamesF]

Well, I've been out this morning getting some more moon shots, and given an hour or so I shall do some solar imaging and then there's another chance at the moon tonight

James