Canon 1100D Lunar Closeup

[coxy322]

I just had my first attempt at imaging with the Planetary mode in APT. It's very good, found it quite useful as a webcam subsitute - what do you think of the image below?

I used a 2x Barlow with a red filter and did this during the day, approx 16:00Hrs whilst I had the moon in my back garden (it dissapears over the house later at night currently). I took 2000 frames and stacked the best 80%.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrocox/7274262300/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Hopefully we'll get some clear evenings this week and I'll concentrate on some serious lunar work.

Ash

[Yoddha]

Cool image Ash!

[nytecam]

Nice image but very dark on my monitor

Great idea to work in daylight using red filter or red channel against blue sky Thought about it this hot sunny week but too hot and bothered to try:cool:

[coxy322]

How about these two for an improvement?

First is Apenninus region and second the Walther Crater.

Not quite so sharp on the mountains as I was in 10x via APT and already 2x on the Barlow. Darker shots here compared to daytime. Processing was much easier. Still used a red filter.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrocox/7290466356/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrocox/7290646864/in/photostream/

[iwatkins]

Very nice. Red filter defo helping the churn through seeing.

Cheers

Ian