Waxing Moon

[johnfosteruk]

I took this on 12th March this year. It's 30% of about 2000 frames captured with my Nikon at ISO 800 on the SW 130, processed in Registax.

It's not the best, and probably not processed as well as it could be but I'm pleased with it, it's the first image I'd been able to capture where I really had a handle on what I was doing since getting the scope. Since getting the motor I'm sure things will improve by orders of magnitude as I don't have to worry about tracking objects, so I can concentrate on the image.

I particularly like Langrenus, and Cleomedes/Tralles in this image. I don't know why, they just stand out to me.

It was an eventful night for me too, my brother in law and 16 year old niece were with me and blown away by Jupiter, and I broke my mount!! 

 

Clear Skies

[laudropb]

Lovely image. Great detail captured.

[Astro Imp]

You have every right to be pleased, you have caught some good detail, well done.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice result. If you think there is more detail hiding in the data, you could try sharpening with ImPPG (using deconvolution and unsharp masking) rather than registax wavelets

[johnfosteruk]

Thanks Michael, I've just been having a play with ImPPG. You can easily go over the top with that can't you....