Lunar Skywatcher Pro 150, a good night imaging

[Aussie Dave]

Just throwing this one up as it's getting late again. Will do some stax tomorrow. All images look promising having been out tonight for a couple of hours on quite a clear night, little wind but temperature was droppping.

Single shot with Skywatcher Pro 150, ISO 100, 1/250th sec, sharpened only at half the scale in Paint.

[Aussie Dave]

Final image 12 stax. I actually have 45 good shots but over the time I took them, I'm getting rotaion. The center of the image in a 45 image stax is ok but I can see the rotaion in the top and botom on the image, mainly the top.

So, what to do next.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Some nice detail in that shot

[laudropb]

Very nice detailed lunar image.

[xtreemchaos]

thats a good image Dave, some nice detail mate. you will have to do some stitching and make a mosaic next. thanks for posting charl.

[Astro Imp]

I like that, you're posting some nice work of late. Thanks.

Us in this part of the world rely on you to remind us what our neighbour looks like, haven't seen it for ages.

[Aussie Dave]

Thanks everyone. I don't think I can do much better with the gear I have (or should that be knowledge I have).

Stitching does sound interesteing Charl and it's on the cards.

I'm thinking of doing some video next with the Nikon and webcam. The upside is I'll get more images in a shorter period of time to eliminate noticable rotaion, the downside is that it'll be a lower resolution. Paint that I use does have a good rotaion option but that would be time consuming working with layers and I don't like that sound of that!

I think the webcam has promise but I'll need to image one lunar feature/region per imaging session to get all those frames. I should be able to do much better with that webcam.

[Aussie Dave]

Alan, sorry to hear you've had no luck yet.

Wishing you all clear skies soon.

[Aussie Dave]

Sorry for the tripple post but I had success with the 45 Stax!   I only just noticed tonight the Derotate and Estimate Rotation check boxes were unticked

I ended up with a more natural looking final shot without it looking too contrasty by sharpening alone in Paint. I've learnt 2 new things today in registax and I'm sure there's heaps more to master. I still need to dial in on my focusing I think.

This one's for the pool room!

[T-WING]

Great shots! The single shot is about as good as it gets being a single shot. Nice colors too. Thumbs up.

-TW