The Moon at F50

[Rodd]

I stacked a 2x and a 2.5x Powermate for 5x (F50).  I tried stacking a 2.5x and a4x, but the images, while observable on the screen, would not process.  Maybe from space (or LaPalma).  The last pic is at F40.

                                                             

[andrew s]

Simply stunning Regards Andrew

[johnfosteruk]

Beautuful

[graemlourens]

I am blown away, amazing. The Detail is stunning!

How many subs are you stacking?

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very sharp images. Love all the craterlets in Plato

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, graemlourens said:

I am blown away, amazing. The Detail is stunning!

How many subs are you stacking?

Graemlourens,

Thanks for your kind words.  For these shots I acquired 10,000 frames at about 70 fps (about 2.5 minutes).  I stacked in Autostakerd2--2 stacks for each pic, the best 10% and the best 25%.  I then processed the images in Registack and chose the stack I liked better.  There usually wan't a big difference between the 10% and 25%.  Sometimes one was better and sometimes the other was.  More frames helps keep the noise down (noise from a high gain).  So if the data is pretty good, the more frames the better.  Its a learning process, and I am just beginning to get teh hang of it.  I am glad you enjoyed the pics.

[laudropb]

Great detain captured in these lovely images.

[graemlourens]

Thx for your answer, stunning, just stunning.
You've re-waken my interest in shooting the moon. I'm totally on widefield deepsky currently, and all my cams are hardwired in the obsy. I think i'll have to get some small highfps camera to use that celestron SCT that is lying around all the time!

Kind regards, Graem

[Astro Imp]

Amazing simply amazing and a pleasure to explore at full size. Thanks for sharing.

[Tommohawk]

Excellent images - really crisp and loads of detail

[Fay]

Fantastic Rodd.  Did you use the ZWO for the capture?

 

Fay

[The Admiral]

Super images! Oh for that sort of resolution (and decent seeing)!

Ian

[Rodd]

On 4/25/2016 at 05:46, Fay said:

Fantastic Rodd.  Did you use the ZWO for the capture?

 

Fay

Fay,

 

Yes the ZWO ASI 174MM.  I wish the pixels were a bit smaller  4.4 instead of 5.86.  Oh well.  I like the camera.

[JimRymer]

Simply amazing so crisp and clean images, perfect. I love the moon, it is a majestic Lady and you have captured her beauty and splender, thank you for sharing these shots with us.

[symesie04]

simply gorgeous