Random Luna stuff from 28-3-2018

[Ibbo!]

For somebody who does not do the moon things went a bit mad last night, over 120GB of data gathered with the C11 and the Chameleon.

 

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and not forgetting the terrible Jupiter image through the boiling atmosphere.

[Swoop1]

Nice images Ibbo.

The first image is where I was looking when I opened my topic in Lunar Observing Bright smudge NW of Sinus Iridium (I think)-

23 hours ago, Swoop1 said:

At 22:15 BST  this evening I was taking a tour of the terminator and, as I was studying the vicinity of what I think was Sinus Iridium I saw a very bright smudge to its North West. I managed quite sharp focus on the crater edges but the bright smudge woukd not resolve.

Studying my lunar map I beleieve the smudge was either on the edge of Foucault or Hacpalus (Foucault if Hacpalus was disected by the terminator).

I have no idea what I was looking at but, it looked almost like ejecta catching the sun as it settled back to the lunar surface.

Madness I know but.........

The largest crater just off the rim of Sinus Iridium- the one closest to the top of the image- 5 o,clock of that is a smaller crater, quite close. 5 o'clock of that crater and about 2.5- 3 times as far away is another, slightly larger crater. Close to and about 4 O'clock of that crater is a bright, elongated smudge. It looked last night like a dust cloud as I couldn't resolve it. Studyong your image, it now looks like severl bright points, probably where the sun i hitting ridge tops etc.

 

[johnfosteruk]

Nice set Steve, cracking amount of detail on the Lunar shots.

[Sunshine]

Great closeups! 120GB of data! thats a huge amount of info, do AP cams usually output gigantic amounts of data? im guessing its because they're shooting many frames per sec so just a 20 sec video amounts to who knows how many pics.

[Ibbo!]

6 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Great closeups! 120GB of data! thats a huge amount of info, do AP cams usually output gigantic amounts of data? im guessing its because they're shooting many frames per sec so just a 20 sec video amounts to who knows how many pics.

2000 frames in about 37 secs just over 6gb/run. I did 19 and dumped a few of them due to cloud or focus issues.

[johnfosteruk]

47 minutes ago, Ibbo! said:

somebody who does not do the moon things

I keep meaning to suggest you start doing moon things, I reckon you'd be good at it 

[Ruud]

Ah, wonderful Moon images!

[nucdoc]

Wonderful detail, a very nice collection of images!

 

Mark