Luna 25/07/15 TAL/1000D

[nightfisher]

I finally had a chance at some Luna imaging last night, started out with Mak 150/spc900, but not done this type for a long time so very out of practise, but as i had the mount set up and seeing as a band of cloud was heading for the moon i lobbed the faithful TAL100 on the mount and set up the 1000D at prime focus.

This is a stack of 25 frames at 125/sec iso 400 run through pipp and then registax 5, a little play with wavelets then saved as png file

[Stu]

That's very nice Jules, plenty of detail in there and focus looks sharp. So this was with the TAL?

[nightfisher]

That's very nice Jules, plenty of detail in there and focus looks sharp. So this was with the TAL?

Thanks Stu, yes taken with TAL100RS, i seem to have gotten my cropping a bit wrong in the processing so might have another run at it, as i should have full image with no parts lopped of

[nightfisher]

Had another play and think i got the cropping about right

[xtreemchaos]

great image of the moon mate.amazing detail. thanks for sharing.  charl.

[Stu]

That's better Jules. Is it converted to mono? No CA visible?

[nightfisher]

Its in colour Stu, a salutation to the TAL optics

Edit: i think its colour, i seem to remember registax prompting me to process in colour

[spaceboy]

Great effort Jules. There is no saturation in your second image so I suspect it is mono. You should see some normal colour in the surface if it was shot in colour. From memory it will show blue, yellow, green and I think a bit of red.

[spaceboy]

The saturation has obviously been boosted in this image (not mine BTW) but you would still get similar hints of colour in a lunar image shot in colour

[laudropb]

Rey good lunar image. Thanks for posting.

[nightfisher]

Great effort Jules. There is no saturation in your second image so I suspect it is mono. You should see some normal colour in the surface if it was shot in colour. From memory it will show blue, yellow, green and I think a bit of red.

got me thinking now, so i might do a re process later and make sure its colour all the way just to double check

[nightfisher]

Single frame from the 25 shots, should be in colour just wavelets applied

If you look carefully there is a little yellow in the mares area, stonking good lens in that TAL

[Stu]

Looks impressively clean , nice one.

[Blazar]

Lovely shots jules....cant go wrong with the TAL ;-)

[ivanB1975]

Also the single frame looks well focused! How did you get this? Nice pics

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[spaceboy]

Had a mess I hope you don't mind Jules ?

Think I got some blue out of the image as well. Not sure if it will show once uploaded ??

[philj]

Good one Jules. Just shows some achros can be used for imaging.

I like my old Towa f15 on lunar, stonkingly sharp and contrasty

[nightfisher]

Good one Jules. Just shows some achros can be used for imaging.

I like my old Towa f15 on lunar, stonkingly sharp and contrasty

Cheers Phil, looks like my old Tal is on its last season............ED aperture calls

[philj]

I shall believe that when I see it Jules :-) :-)

[Piero]

Really beautiful images! I like your second image a lot, Jules! Nice and clean. Well done!

We (Heartians) are all lucky to have such a beautiful satellite rotating around our planet.

I don't think Phobos and Deimos are so gorgeous from Mars.

[nightfisher]

Very well said piero, our moon is one of the best

[Alkaid]

Hi Jules, I like these, I would like to try it myself as my wife just bought herself a DSLR (which she said I can borrow!). Do you use a Barlow to get this image scale? Cheers Steve

[nightfisher]

Hi Jules, I like these, I would like to try it myself as my wife just bought herself a DSLR (which she said I can borrow!). Do you use a Barlow to get this image scale? Cheers Steve

No Barlow, you just need a T thread adaptor and a nosepiece, i may try this type of luna imaging with a barlow just to see how it goes