Lunar session 04-11-17

[johnfosteruk]

I was mainly observing the lovely eastern terminator this evening but I captured a few frames as well before packing up. The seeing was pretty good and the moon being high makes all the difference.

Captured using the Skymax 102

Processing: Pipp>AS!2>Focus Magic>Photoshop

Mono

Inverted

Closer

Pushing the limits of 4" aperture 

[nightfisher]

John, very nice, you did much better than i did, i like the "pushing it at 4 inch"

[Stu]

That's a lovely set John, really nice detail. You have clearly sussed Focus Magic now  

[johnfosteruk]

2 hours ago, Stu said:

You have clearly sussed Focus Magic now  

It’s funny you say that because I don’t think I have. It seems to be virtually noise free deconvolution but it’s not really ‘scientific’. With imppg you know what’s going to happen but with FM it seems to be a bit like pushing buttons to see what they’ll do still. I might run these images through IMPPG later just to compare. 

[Stu]

18 minutes ago, johnfosteruk said:

It’s funny you say that because I don’t think I have. It seems to be virtually noise free deconvolution but it’s not really ‘scientific’. With imppg you know what’s going to happen but with FM it seems to be a bit like pushing buttons to see what they’ll do still. I might run these images through IMPPG later just to compare. 

Well, I was looking at it from an entirely non scientific perspective; the double image has gone and it looks sharp