Our Glorious Moon

[Beyond_Vision]

I had a really cracking night last night concentrating wholly on the Moon . I spent ages going down the terminator from Plato and Archimedes to the Appenine Mountains and then on to Eratothenes followed by overlapping craters Ptolemaeus/Alphonsus/Arzachel then I got lost amongst the myriad of craters below that. The detail was amazing in moments of good seeing.

Here's an image taken with a Canon 400D ISO100 1/160th sec exposure 74 images stacked in Registax 4 with wavelets applied cropped.

(click to enlarge)

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

You have captured a beautiful shot of her Kevin. I agree that simply observing the moon can be a very rewarding experience no matter how many times one does it.

I have not Imaged the moon in a long time, but I do observe it, and although there are some outstanding images delivered to this forum and other places, nothing seems to equal those moments of extreme clarity that makes you want to reach up and touch it.

Ron.

[legion48]

That's a cracker Kevin.

[Paxo]

Cracking image Kevin, sounds like you had a very rewarding evening.

Steve..

[Roy Batty]

Nice and crisp - a lovely image Kevin.

cheers

RB

[jgs001]

Superb Kevin, stunning image

[trudie]

Lovely image Kevin.

Trudie

[Vega]

A beaut of our natural satellite

Matt

[SteelRat]

That's a lovely Moon shot Kevin 8) Great levels and focus

cheers

Matthew

[Starflyer]

That's a great image Kevin, loads of detail in there and nice contrast

Cheers,

Ian

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for the nice comments. It was a really relaxing evening with no worries about tracking/autoguiding, CCD settings etc. I could have sat there all night just studying the terminator.

Regards

Kevin

[Sam]

Very nice crisp image of the moon! well done.

[steppenwolf]

Lovely crisp and nicely exposed image - there is a surprising amount of colour in there as well when carefully saturation processed but the crispness of the image does it for me!

[anthony]

Top image and sounds like it was a great visual night too.

Anthony

[saturn5]

Glorious indeed.

[zhgutas]

Well glorious indeed! Very sharp and steady shot! And that diagonal terminator looks much more interesting than a usual vertical one great job Kevin. Love it 8)

Marius