Variety of lunar shots from 18-Nov-2018

[coatesg]

Had some fun doing some lunar imaging the other night while clear, but with a birght Gibbous moon in play. These shots taken using an ASI120MM, 742nm near IR filter through a Meade Series 4000 2x barlow and my 350mm Newt. 

I've done some measurements using craters of known size, and it appears that I'm working at about 2250mm FL here (comes out at 400m on the surface per pixel or 0.34"/px) - a bit shorter than I kinda want (or is recommended) really but I suspect this is possibly due to the spacing of the camera, but even then seems very low?? However, the moon wasn't particularly high in declination, and I don't have the greatest location seeingwise usually - not sure how much difference it might make!

Thanks for looking.

2 panel mosaic of SE moon, covering Wilhelm (top left), Longomontanus, Tycho (right), Clavius (centre bottom), Gruemberger, Klaproth and Casatus (bottom).

 

2 pane mosaic of Mare Humorum from Gassendi down to Vitello, including Agatharchides, Hippalus and the Hippalus Rilles and Campanus

 

Sinus Iridium, the Bay of Rainbows - Promontorium Laplace protruding from the Montes Jura on right; Promontorium Heraclides on left. Harpalus is just in shadow at top.

Lacus Timoris, the Lake of Fear (centre) with overlapping crater Hainzel, with older crater Mee to its lower left.

The lunar north pole - Philolaus in deep shadow on left, Anaxagoras at centre, with the chain Scoresby, Challis, Main, Gioja, Byrd and Peary going up on the right hand side. The lunar north pole sits very close to the bright, rear rim of crater Peary.

Lansberg (centre) and Reinhold (right) (Not quite as good this one).

[wouterdhoye]

Very nice series of images. Well done and thanks for sharing.

Wouter.