johnfosteruk

SUCCESS!

Brilliant.

The view from the SpaceX website:

Pushed to within an inch of it's life in processing, but not too bad. Crisium, Langrenus, Petavius etc showing off well.

Thanks both. Mike I think I agree..

Is it time to get the solar gear out again?

Fab shots Steve.

Captured with the Skymax 102 & Nikon D7000.

25% of 250 still frames aligned in Pipp, stacked with AS!3. Deconvolution with IMPPG. Original image, then one with linear contrast added in PS, and another with more contrast again.

This feels like a decent image to me, now I feel like I'm getting back into the Lunar imaging properly after a fairly long break.

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Original

Linear Contrast

More contrast

Then a little bit of fun.

Annotated view

Pseudo aerial view of the terminator.

I had a really good visual session tonight, enjoying good views of some of the craters right on the SE limb thanks to favourable Libration. Seeing was a little poor at times but with patience there was lots of detail to be seen at 200x.

So after I put the eyepieces away I captured some full disc images and then decided to put the Revelation Astro 5x Barlow between the D7000 and the Skymax and see if I could make a half decent image.

Half being the operative word thanks to dust on the Barlow lens which shows up tracking across the final stacked image (thanks to capturing the surface drifting through the FOV then aligning in Pipp), but still, it's nice to have a record of this group of craters presented favourably.

Also an annotated 'flyover' view thanks to LTVT

A closer look at the same view generated using data from the LRO Wide Angle Camera, overlaid with Digital Elevation Model data for the same time as my image.

And a pseudo aerial view

This is 20 frames shot handheld with the D7000 and Tamron 150-600. Aligned, stacked, Deconvolution applied. Then time to play in Photoshop.

Mono

RGB

RGB Saturated

Mono Inverted

RGB Inverted

Pseudo geological map

Fabulous image

A good start Dave, here's to many more

Oh yes, I should have said, SER files all the way through.

Hi UkSpacenut. I've done this often, although I don't let it drift as much. I've use a Mak on an EQ3 mount so can carefully track it a little bit, roughly by hand. 

My suggested workflow would be as follows:

1. Use Pipp (Planetary Image Pre-processor - https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/) to split your AVI files into segments, you can do a preliminary stretch (this will help in the next step) to set which range of frames to export, so with a bit of trial and error you can batch it all up into your separate avi files by eye. You are not aligning at this point, just splitting the file into your regions.
2. Once you have your separate files for each region, run them separately through Pipp to align them using the solar/lunar close-up preset. This is why prelim stretch in step 1 is important, it'll help the software to do it's alignment. You can set what it aligns on with a little alignment box - choose a unique, high contrast feature (I've had mixed results testing to determine the best size box). Also, set your 'Region of interest' - the FOV you want to output. You can also tell Pipp to sort by quality (use the 'original' setting) and keep only the best 25%. Don't run this step as a batch, do an individual run for each file output from step 1 - because you'll need to change your ROI and alignment box for each set of frames. Also make sure you account for overlap (20% ideal) and the drift.
3. Don't output the final, aligned images to AVI, save as SER files and install SER player from the same site. That way you can manually inspect the results, frame by frame, and bin any frames that could be problematic for Autostakkert/Registax/Siril when you come to stacking the results. (mainly looking for frames that jump around due to alignment feature errors - if there are too many, run it again, choosing a different alignment feature)
4. Stack however you like.
5. Use IMPPG (https://greatattractor.github.io/imppg/) to do some deconvolution and sharpening etc.
6. Enjoy the fruits of your labour.

I haven't captured any lunar data in ages and with the daytime being so nice here yesterday I hoped for a nice clear evening so I could get back into it. Also, I wanted to test the D7000 as a Lunar imaging camera which I hadn't done yet.

At about 9pm the skies were clear so I setup and waited for the scope to cool. An hour later I was raring to go and what do you know, there was a thin layer of hazy cloud.

I went ahead and captured some data anyway and here are the results. Usual process (although I had issues with that as the latest MacOS update killed my windows virtual machine so it took about 5hrs to put that right so I could align and stack!)

I hoped to add a Barlow to get higher resolution data, but by the time I'd captured this lot the clouds were coming in.

Pipp>AS!3>IMPPG>PS

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Lovely colour images, of your obsy

I hope you get the Flickr issue sorted, I love a colour Lunar image

2 images now.

These Sky-Crane landings blow my mind!

Nice image Neil, considering conditions/cooling etc. 

Different view from LabPadre's stream

2 hours ago, Davey-T said:

Plus three days waiting for FAA take off permission 😂

Dave

And 6 hours queuing for customs

Not today either. Hopefully tomorrow

5 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Apparently Elon Musk claims it saves them $6m per launch if they use recovered fairings.

 

Worth the effort then. Although I must admit to being disappointed. How amazing would it be if the fairings had descent boosters, gridfins and landing legs like the first stage?  That would no doubt blow the £6m saving tho..

400% and contrast boosted to enhance the edges

Base of the fairing to the right of shot, tapers up to the left of shot, near edge of frame.

Well spotted sir.

20 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Here we go:

About a third of the way up the left hand side of the screen, just coming into view from behind the first stage?  It looks as though it could actually be fairly close.

James

Timing.

Downloaded from YT. Ran through VLC Frame buffer to output the frames, upscaled to 200% and made a GIF. I reckon you're right.

Got it.

2 mins and I'll share a close up GIF

3 minutes ago, JamesF said:

It's on the first stage image more clearly I think.  It's barely there for a second though, so I've not managed to get a screen grab yet.

James

Wasn't even looking at the first stage

However, now I am, I think I see it but not clearly. There's something that looks like a flash behind one of the left gridfins. 

Got it on quarter speed trying to get a grab of it now

This?

Reckon you could be right.