Lunar imaging showcase 2015

[MartinB]

Please use this thread to showcase your best images captured during 2015. Just one post per member but you can include up to 5 images if you want.

The thread is for all imagers novices and advanced. 

Please keep details to a minimum - scope and camera possibly along with a few comments.

The thread needs to be packed with images so please don't respond to the postings 

Showcases from previous years

[nightfisher]

This is one of my best from 2015, taken 26th July.

I used TAL100RS with Canon 1000D at prime focus, iso400 

                                   

                                                                 

[Stu]

My humble offerings, all iPhone specials, hand held at the eyepiece using the Tak.

EDIT In hindsight, not sure which scope I used for the first one, possible it was the 12" OO dob.

The eclipse:

[Steve Ward]

Mostly been a visual year for me , but I did connect things up for the Eclipse in September ... 

Pre-Eclipse Full test image .

First half darkening video from DSLR stills .

Totality .

Montage.

[PeterCPC]

Couple of close in shots from me both taken with C9.25 and ASI120MC.

Peter

[ArmyAirForce]

January - Size Comparison

 

February - Attempt at a Lunar cycle

 

September - Lunar Eclipse

 

October - Playing with the Moon

 

November - Bird Transit

[xtreemchaos]

heres mine. taken with ED80 2xEDbarlow, 450d,all staxed with regi. ive still loads to learn,but i think ive improved a little bit "well hopefully". Happy New Year everybody. thanks for looking  charl...

[T-WING]

These are my highlights. All with SW200PDS and ASI224MC, except the last one.

BloodMoon:

Day Moon:

Close ups:

Discs:

Looking forward for Showcase 2016 !

Have a good one,

-TW

[laudropb]

Thanks to all for posting. Some real crackers there.

[nucdoc]

Imaging telescopes or lenses: TMB Optical 130mm SS

Imaging cameras: ZW Optical ZWO 174MM

Mounts: Meade LX850 Starlock

Focal reducers: Optec NexGen 0.7x

Software: PixInsight,  Firecapture 2.4, Autostakkert! Autostackert! 2

Filters: Astronomik CLS CCD 2"

 

[Stub Mandrel]

[Blazar]

Hi all...here are mine from last year...the year when I think I managed to step up a bit. The equipment used was the Edge800HD, AVX mount, ZWO120mm-s. sometimes a red filter, other times an IR PASS.  and also a x2 TV barlow for use up close. Thanks for looking.

24-1 3 pane mosaic of the Vallis Rheita area.

Vallis Schroteri (June)

Rupes Recta (Straight Wall)

Plato (the home of Moonbase Alpha) - July

Copernicus - December

Lots of others in my egde800 gallery if anyone is interested.

[JB80]

Some good lunar shots to choose from last year, I do find it tough to pick though so lets see what we end up with.

The Wolf Moon

Montes Apenninus

Rupes Recta

7% Moon, I actually have a 4% but I picked this one as I like the bright reflection at the bottom of the image.

Maybe my favourite of year.

[RafalT73]

I present my two pictures from very last days of 2015. Technical cards of those photo you can find at  http://moje-nocne-niebo.blogspot.com/2016/01/swieta-i-nowy-rok-20152016.html

 

Here below, in the upper right corner of the photo you can see a well-known TYCHO crater with a diameter of 86 km from the Copernican geological epoch

 

north - east part of the Sea of Nectar (lower left corner) with two fairly large impact craters. The first is the THEOPHILUS (bottom photo) with a depth of 3.2 km and a diameter of 101 km and the second is FRACASTORIUS large crater with a diameter of 124 km (keep more in the middle of the left edge of the photo). In the centre of the Theophilus crater you can clearly see big impact mountain, which was formed after some meteorite collision - height is 1.4 km!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

One shot I just have to include: the 109-pane mosaic. I think the new forum software will support the full size image. Let's see

[neil phillips]

Here's some recent work I have been doing mostly with a SW 12" Newtonian. But there might be the Orion 245 in here somewhere. Cameras were Altair Hypercam 224. ZWO ASI 290MM Filters Altair IR685 Planet killer. Used on the mono shots NEQ6 Mount Celestron X Cel 3x Barlow