First go at Lunar image - Plato?

[Jove]

After trying to capture Saturn early in the morning, I thought I'd try and get some images of the Moon. This was probably the best - I think dew may have been causing some problems by this point. I think it is the crater 'Plato' but am not sure.

I uses the same kind of process as I have for planetary imaging - use a 2.5x Powermate on a 127mm Mak with an SPC900. I took fewer frames (about 400) and stacked about 125 of them. I took default everything in Registax and did a little processing in CS3 (curves etc). Are there any particular things to be aware of in Registax when processing Lunar images that help produce better images?

[nightfisher]

yes a nice plato capture, well done

[Demonperformer]

Very nice, and you have captured the shadows of the mountainous edge really well

[Stargazing_Cliff]

Nice image like shadows in crator they are interesting

[Jove]

Thank you all for your kind comments

It had been a long while since I looked at the Moon properly, I had forgotten how beautiful it can be.

[JimStan]

LOOOOVE those long shadows !

Jim S.

[Rob1961]

Nice shot of Plato like others have said the shadows just give that little bit more to the image

[smerral]

Good one!