Ptolemaeus, Alphonsos, Arzachel Sept 20th 2019

[wouterdhoye]

Hi,

 

I got up early this morning to shoot the moon. Below the result (click the tumbnail)

Image taken with my CFF CC300 f/20 + ASI 174MM and an orange filter.

Seeing appeared to be reasonably good. And using lower gain than with an IR-pass filter resulted in better S/N ratio. And an overall better image than I'm used to.

Enjoy and feel free to comment.

[CraigT82]

Incredible image at full size, more tiny craters than it's possible to count!  I'm inspired to set my alarm early tomorrow and have a go

[kev]

uve got the in crater rills easy!

[Tomjo59]

Brilliant image, great resolution.

Congratulations!

[pi_co100]

Your images are just incredible. Well done!

[tooth_dr]

Outstanding!!

I noticed this in your image! What do you think could have caused that?

 

 

 

[wouterdhoye]

That's Catena Davy. it's a series of impacts. Most likely caused by a meteorite that's been ripped apart by gravitation. Comaprable to what happenend with Shoemaker levy 9 when it fell apart when pulled in by Jupiter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_(crater)

Wouter.

[ronl]

Superb detail, I look forward to seeing more of your lunar images, thank you for sharing.

[Andy R]

The level of detail is amazing. I’m starting to see the moon in a completely different aspect. 

[Mr Spock]

Excellent image with loads of detail. 👍