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From the album: Moon and Stars
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From the album: Solar System Objects
This is the first quarter Moon imaged in LRGB natural color with cropped sections from the full 48 megapixel resolution image. It's been a quite while since I imaged the full disc of the Moon without an event such as a lunar eclipse so it was time to photograph it again with my current, and updated from last time, equipment... resulting in my most detailed photograph of the moon that I have ever taken. Imaged with a QHY268M through a C8 SCT at f6.3 to fit the full disc of the moon into the frame. 150% Drizzle stacked the sharpest 15% of the frames from a 300 second luminance video, and 60 second videos for each of the red, green and blue channels captured at 6.8fps. Shutter speed was 10ms for Luma and 20ms through each of the color filters. Captured with FireCapture 2.7.13, stacked in Autostakkert 3.1.4 64bit (needed 64bit for the amount of >4Gb RAM needed to process the data) and Registax 6. -
NASA's done most of the heavy lifting on this one but as I haven't had a decent view of the moon for a few weeks I thought I'd have a go at some 3D models of the lunar surface. A lunar Digital Elevation Model ( DEM ) is freely available and this model is of the Kepler crater at a resolution of 256 pixels per degree giving about 118m per pixel. This is a screenshot from Meshlab but you can see and interact with the actual 3D model at my Sketchfab page - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kepler-crater-d8b9a61e57ca4e5b97f871573d3c28db. ( The model was created by modifying some software that I'd previously written for parsing LiDAR data into 3D models ) Similar data with additional image overlays to improve the surface texture are also available from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720. These are at lower resolutions and at the lowest resolution it's possible to create a model of the whole moon but, as might be expected, the detail is disappointingly low. However anything above that resolution gives an absolutely gigantic model that my PC struggles to display. To give an idea of the different resolutions here's a comparison of the Kepler Crater: ( The next plan is an Etsy shop where you can buy 3D printed models of all the main lunar craters. Like a sort of Lunar Pokémon - Gotta catch 'em all )
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Jupiter and Saturn's 2020 grand tease (conjunction) gave us a bright, beautiful doublestar naked-eye, and it was nice viewing them in the same scope field. But I wanted more. Blowing the dust off a 20-year-old Celestia planetarium software CD, I tweaked the event parallax into a full occultation. This triggered a bucket list of location/time based planetary, sun, and moon event simulations that might be observed with future space flight capabilities. There's some other astro-related clips made just for kicks as well. If anything, it's been cheap therapy to help get me through countless cloudy nights. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/@saberzastrovidz Peace, Stephen PAC/Astronomical League http://www.tinyurl.com/saberdoesthestarz http://www.tinyurl.com/c14isawesome
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Moon imaging with the 200P and Nikon D800, this morning at 05:00. The sky was looking clear when I got up at 04:30, but by the time I was set up there was a halo around the Moon and I only got 32 images before the clouds came in and finished things.
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Whilst the UK is being battered by Storm Babet and my own region of North Derbyshire has severe flooding, we are enjoying some of the best skies I have experienced, here in Fuerrteventura. I hope you are all staying safe. Here are some of the photos of the Moon that I have grabbed since arriving on Tuesday, this week. Sadly, I am working with just 600 mm focal length, so not getting the highest resolution images with the D800 as it was impractical to bring the big telescopes. I am here until early November, so hopefully will capture the upcoming lunar eclipse.
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I set out to image the moonrise over the sea today, in Fuerteventura, but cloud over the horizon prevented me from seeing the Moon. Eventually, it rose higher into thinner cloud and gradually began to put in an appearance. I started imagaing as soon as the cloud began to brighten to ensure that I would capture it's first appearance. The end result looks rather more like a sunrise than a moonrise, but is better than nothing.
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I'm just starting with astrophotography and this is my first attempt at lunar imaging that I'm happy for people to look at. ( This was actually about my sixth attempt in all and was taken at the end of May. ) Because I'm a cheapskate I decided to start with whatever equipment I already had rather than buy anything new so I used my old Bresser 70mm refractor. This is on an equally old Orion EQ-1 equatorial mount that I've motorised using a stepper motor and an Arduino controller. I initially tried to take a video but my Nikon D3100 was over exposing the moon and I couldn't work out how to adjust the exposure ( I don't use video much on that camera! ). In the end I used an intervalometer to take about 200 stills. I use Linux so the processing was: RawTherapee - RAW image processing to fine tune the exposure and colour balance and crop the image PIPP ( under WINE ) Autostakkert3 ( under WINE ) GIMP - final fine tuning I could have probably done more tweaking of the image but I'm the world's laziest photo editor so this had to do. ( I was happy with this result so I've splurged £100 on a second hand TAL-2M scope which should give some more detailed lunar views and maybe some planetary images as well. )
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The Moon photographed at 04:15 UTC today in daylight. Single frame with Nikon D800 and 600 mm lens. f/8, 1/60s, ISO-100
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Last year I had a go tilting images of craters near the edge of the limb to get a simulated top down perspective. I realised that if you had a full disc image you should be able to map that on to a 3D solid hemisphere and then rotate that hemisphere to get a top down view anywhere on this side of the moon. Below is my attempt to do this using blender (a 3D modelling and animation tool). Original "flat" image is a mosaic using a 12" Orion Optics UK newtonian at about f26 and an ASI294mc processed in AS!3, RegStakx, GIMP. 3D projection and animation done in blender. The original image had a very favourable eastern libration that allowed you to see to about 90 degrees east. Worked pretty well so going to have a go at a few more of these! https://youtu.be/A_6UvuSUYSY Searching around the web, I am by no means the first person to do this. The earliest I found were workers at the University of Arizona in the early '60s working on the "Rectified lunar atlas" who projected photographic images down a long dark tunnel onto a 3ft diameter sphere. They then stood at the side of the sphere to photograph the limb top-down. https://www.psi.edu/epo/multiring_impact_basins/multiring_impact_basins.html There was also this post on SGL from a few years back using the Lunar Terminator Visualisation tool to get single top-down images near the limb:
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My first drawing through the eyepiece! (Or, a collection of well placed lines.) I knew it would be hard to draw celestial objects, so of course I went and drew the hardest of them all (in my range, at any rate). The craters and mountain ranges were a little difficult, but the really hard part was the shape of the maria. That's probably obvious to anyone who knows the Moon well--and to those people, don't mind the fact that maria is misshapen 😂.
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From the album: PESKYWAABBITS Not so DSO pics
0.03s capture of The Moon from my ASI1600mm in the Luminance filter with a ED80. First ever capture with this camera, so a learning curve it was! Captured 5th November 2022. -
Great lighting conditions for this couple The largest crater, Aristoteles, is a ~90km-wide circular crater with steep slopes and very high walls with terraces. Its companion, Eudoxus, is a ~70km-wide crater with central mountains and hills that emerge beautifully with the sun setting over the two formations. First light for my new C11, and even if the seeing was average to bad, the performance was amazing! Looking forward to improving my images in the future. Seeing 3/5 - Celestron C11 EdgeHD - SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro - Barlow 3x COMA Apo/Apla - ASI 174 MM - Baader Red Interference - 500 frames - AS!3 - Registax 6.1 - Photoshop CC
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From the album: Deep Sky From My Back Yard
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The Moon. Captured last night at 21:25 just as the clouds were approaching, which gave me two minutes after setting up to, frame, focus and grab 140 images. In my rush, I don't think I quite nailed the focus. Nikon D800, 600mm, f/8, ISO-100, 1/250s. Processing in Autostakkert & GIMP.
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Hi everyone. Looks like I will get some favourable weather in the coming days, but the moon is out and full. I finally have a car so I can get away from light polluted Weymouth, and tonight I took a drive and found a great spot to shoot (see image). So to the point, I want to shoot Andromeda during these moonlit nights since the moon will be directly behind me. How much will it still affect my images? I'm still a beginner, using a Nikon Z50 and the 50-250mm kit lens @250 (F6.3), but I do have a Star Adventurer now, so I'll go out and shoot if nothing for the practice (my polar alignments have been pretty good).
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As it was approaching opposition it was a prime time to try to image Mars in greater detail, then I saw a post about the occultation and having been outside for the few cold clear nights recently it was unique to see Mars getting so close to the Moon. The plan was to image DSO for a few hours, setup my C6 for some close up views and then image both widefield with my Z61 and close up with the C6. Turns out it was freezing cold, so I couldn't be bothered to setup the SCT, other people however have posted excellent up close images of the occulation so it's recommended to have a look through the lunar and planetary threads to see them. First time using the ZWO 485MC for planetary as I normally use it as a DSO camera, went well with the AZGTI tracking fairly well. I had to align some of the stacks post process and I had to oversaturate and colourise Mars to make it stick out as the stacks looked fairly monochrome. I wanted to show a realtime like occlusion and reveal which I think has been captured fairly well, it was a sight to see visually as I kept alternating between my 10mm eyepiece and the camera via a flip mirror. Please click on the below to see the 4K full res animation on my Flickr profile, hope you enjoy.
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I did this with my SW200P and Canon 40D 25 frames 10's apart, so just over 4 mins, quite a bit of cloud, by the time Mars reappeared the moon was below the Shed roof, and guess what it was clear.
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The Moon photographed last Friday night with Nikon D800 and 300 mm prime lens. Single frame, no stacking. For some reason the images would not produce a good stack, despite none being below 90% of the image quality of this one.
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