127 Mak Moon 29th May

[bm1980]

Hi all go out for an hour or so tonight for a bit of crater hopping on the moon just as it was going dark, before i came in thought i would get a quick snap seen as the seeing was so good. Anyway this is a single frame taken with my DSLR prime focus on my 127 Mak, hope you like all coments are welcome.

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

Hi all heres a reprocess of the image, i rotated it and think it looks better and is my best moon shot to date.

All comments and pointers are welcome.

Regards

Ben

[bigal1]

Superb Moon image you got there well done i was out the same night with my 127 mak and the view looked exactly the same so as you did i thought i'd snap a few subs but when i got in i realised i had a few settings wrong and the whites were all blown out wasted 60 good subs that night so great to see your results .

[wyx]

Thats a great pic!

[bm1980]

Superb Moon image you got there well done i was out the same night with my 127 mak and the view looked exactly the same so as you did i thought i'd snap a few subs but when i got in i realised i had a few settings wrong and the whites were all blown out wasted 60 good subs that night so great to see your results .

Thanks Alan sorry to hear that 60 frames wasted :(gutted

I havent tried stacking single dslr frames, you have had some really nice results doing this, i will have to try next time

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

Thats a great pic!

Thanks WYX

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

Hi all i have been playing around with this image quite a lot, i thought i would crop it to see if i would loose any detail and i was pleased with the crop. Let me know what you all think of it.

Regards

Ben

[Mak One]

Nice work! Lovely focus and exposure, borne out by the quality you've maintained in the cropped version.

(Sort of makes me wonder why I bother with a webcam and hours of processing...)

[bigal1]

Thats a nice crop you did there Ben my fav feature on the moon aswell

[bm1980]

Nice work! Lovely focus and exposure, borne out by the quality you've maintained in the cropped version.

(Sort of makes me wonder why I bother with a webcam and hours of processing...)

Thanks Ash, i agree but i think i was blessed with very good seeing on the night, usually a stacked image is better than any single image, but it just shows how much detail can be imaged with the right conditions.

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

Thats a nice crop you did there Ben my fav feature on the moon aswell

Thanks Alan, yes it is a really fasinating region of the lunar surface there is so much going on in a relativly small area.

Regards

Ben