Moon mosaic, 24 March, phase 0.04

[dvmak]

Hi,

This is my first post in Lunar imaging here, so let me introduce myself a little.

I am Dmitry Makolkin, amateur astronomer from Moscow, Russia.

My main activity is Moon imaging, and I am mostly focused on the whole Moon mosaics.

Here is my last attempt to get a very thin new moon. The phase was 0.04 only and the distance from Sun was about 23 degrees.

Moon was 17 - 15 degrees above horizon during imaging session, so atmospheric dispersion can be seen as motion blur effect.

I used simple green filter from Baader, being afraid that my IR filter will be too dark for this phase.

The scope is TAK-250K, camera is DMK31. Mosaic is made of 9 elements, each element was done in Registax 6.

Here is a link to a page with full size image: Moon, 24 March 2012 by Dmitry Makolkin.

You are also welcome to see my other Moon images in my gallery. Thank you!

[MikeD]

Great mosaic along with lots of other stunner's in your gallery.

Looking forward to many more.

Mike.

[Luis Campos]

Cheers Dmitry,

Absolutely stunning moon images, some of the very best I ever seen, lovely processing coupled with crisp optics, you sure have a great instrument there

Do you have some planetary images Dmitry or just lunar?

Best wishes,

Luís

[astrosphinx]

Stunning! - definitely some of the finest I've seen. Keep up the great work.

[Rattler]

Fantastic images there. Well done.