First moon pics.....anyone know the crater?

[Tim]

From a week or two back when the moon was just past full (3/4).

I was very surprised to actually SEE turbulence in the atmosphere while looking at the moon at high mag. Also, I have some video footage of the turbulence somewhere. Would it be heat from houses or just the air moving? was a little breezy IIRC.

Anyway, here's me first effort at a moon piccy, with Canon 400d.

Cheers

TJ

[Starflyer]

Nice shot TJ.

I think it's Tycho top middle, Maginus below Tycho and Clavius to the bottom left. But then again I may be completely wrong

Cheers,

Ian

[GazOC]

Nice first shot TJ. I think Starflyer is right with his ID. The movement you saw was probably air turbulance which is is why a lot of lunar imagers use cameras capable of taking 5-60 FPS and 'freezing' the times of steady seeing and stacking the best frames, rather than use one shot cameras.

[Talitha]

Hi TJ, nice image! :thumbup: It's understandably a bit soft because of the turbulence, but there's a lot of nice details to be seen. The craters are Moretus, Clavius and Maginus.

[The Warthog]

Nice pic, TJ! I often see turbulence on the Moon, even at relatively low magnifications. It appears to me as a shimmering on the crater edges and other fine features. I am pretty sure it is caused by the same atmospherice turbulence that makes stars twinkle. Of course, rooftops and asphalt do create local heat effects, too.

That crater sure does look like Tycho at first glance. My first clue that it wasn't would be that Tycho is fully lit by 3/4 Moon.

[Sam]

That's quite a clear image for magnification TJ - well done - I've no idea what the crater is.

[Tim]

Thanks for the replies. Apparently I have a book somewhere that has all these details in, I'll read it one day...............

Looking back at the other pics I see that it was actually half a moon, sorry for confusing y'all!!

I have some more somewhere, might post them later on for a laugh......

Cheers

TJ

[cygnusx1]

Gr8 shot angle for ur 1st lunar TJ :thumbup:

[SteelRat]

Nice pic for a Canon 400d matey 8)