Moon, 27th May

[JamesF]

As the Moon wasn't going to clear the barn roof until about 1:30am I was out and ready for it last night, watching the shadows move across the garden so I could be ready to go the moment it was clear allowing me time to get all the subs I wanted. The only real difficulty was the same as last night: keeping the image on the sensor given so few pixels to spare. It's all so much easier when the Moon is away from perigee The seeing looked pretty good -- perhaps unsurprising given quite how cold it was. I reckon the 450D runs as much as 5C warmer than the ambient air temperature when taking a long sequence of subs and APT still only said 13C after I'd been using the camera for several hours. Welcome to midsummer

Pain-free processing this morning and I'm quite happy with the end result. I did try tweaking the contrast slightly, but to my eye whilst it did enhance some of the detail on the eastern side there was a corresponding loss on the western side as shadowed features became harder to pick out so I've left it as it was.

120 frames of 1/200th @ ISO200, 450D & 127 Mak, preprocessed with PIPP, 48 frames stacked in Registax v6.

James

[ilove1995]

Superb image James. I'm chomping at the bit to have a go at imaging the moon again.

[nightfisher]

really sharp, you get a huge amount of detail with a dslr

[peroni]

Another spectacular shot. I'll have to wait until autumn now as I can't face the late nights imaging

[Freddie]

Looking very nice there James.

[todd8137]

Not bad at all

Pat

[t_ilan_s]

Very good image! the contrast is very good as it is

[Stargazer33]

That looks excellent James. It always amazes me the amount of detail you get out of full and nearly full Moons.

As our works broadband is slower than a snail on a go slow, I will have to wait until I get home to have a look at the full image.

Here's to clear skies & many hours of observation/imaging to come!

[Alan]

Very nice capture James, worth staying up for

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely image

[scoobee]

top notch, well-done.

Just a quick question, do you use any filters?

[JamesF]

Just a quick question, do you use any filters?

None at all.

James

[scoobee]

None at all.

James

even more impressed, I have been struggling with my cam, might be better getting my DSLR out.

[Superdavo]

Awesome! Yours are probably the best dslr moon shots I've seen on the forums!

[JamesF]

Praise indeed Thank you.

James