Lunar and some craters

[Aussie Dave]

I've been busy trying to improve my lunar and planetary over the last few months or so. I'm still at it most nights when the weather and conditions permit.

 

This was taken early morning on the 20th of March with the Sony a5000 at 2x zoom and the Celestron Nexstar 8i, no tracking, prime focus, ISO 250, 1/125th sec. It's a 6 pane mosaic stitched in MS ICE, final edit in PaintDotNet.

 

These next images are with the Celestron Neximage 5 Solar System Imager,  UV/IR cut filter and Celestron Nexstar 8i taken early morning on the 17th March. 3 minute videos were taken in Firecapture, stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax, finished in PaintDotNet.

Crater Aristoteles and Eudoxus. Stacked 20% (979 frames).

 

Crater Posidonius. Stacked 15% (735 frames).

 

My favorite so far to date, crater Moretus. Stacked 14% (685 frames).

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Superb images Dave, sharp with loads of detail. Looking to start close up lunar imaging very soon, just need to make up my mind what camera to get!

[laudropb]

Lovely set of images Dave. I like them all, but the image of Moretus is really fantastic. 

[Alfian]

Great images, impressed. I'm hoping to get started in Luna imaging sometime soon, if I could get any where near close to those I'd be a very happy bunny.

[Petehog72]

same camera we have, what settings did you use for the craters, great images by the way

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Dave, the ones with the C8 are very good, lovely detail in all. thanks, charl.

[Ruud]

Those months of practice paid off, Dave, these images are very good! Congratulations.