Gassendi and Mare Humorum at dawn

[Zakalwe]

The early Lunar morning sunrise creeps across Mare Humoram. The low Sun angle highlights the crater walls and the Rimae Hippalus.
Emerging from the night, the 1200m high central peaks of  the diamond-ring shaped Gassendi are illuminated in the sunlight of a new Lunar day.
Image Details:
Chameleon mono camera, red longpass flter. Celestron C11 on EQ8.
Stacked in AS!2beta and wavelet sharpened in Registax.

Gassendi and Humorum at dawn

[JamesF]

Some lovely detail there.

James

[Grant]

Amazing detail!

Out of curiosity, how many frames did you use to stack? Is this just the camera and scope, no barlows?

[PhotoGav]

That's a corker, great stuff!

[Zakalwe]

Amazing detail!

Thank you.

Out of curiosity, how many frames did you use to stack? Is this just the camera and scope, no barlows?

50% of 1000 frames were stacked.

This was with the Chameleon at prime focus, no Barlow.

I sometimes use a Televue Powermate 2.5, though the seeing at mu location is usually not good enough for Lunar imaging at over 7 metres focal length. Sunday night, however, was good enough to capture this:

Copernicus March 2015 by Stephen Jennette, on Flickr

The small crater on the walls of Copernicus (at the 9 o'clock position) is 3Km in diameter.

[Blazar]

Lovely images Stephen. You have got me thinking about the x2.5.....but think it will be way too much on the 800.

[Zakalwe]

Lovely images Stephen. You have got me thinking about the x2.5.....but think it will be way too much on the 800.

It works well on planetary imaging.