Montes Apenninus

[CraigT82]

Got up at 4am this morning to shoot a mosaic, intending to get the full moon but aborted after 6 panes as ran of of storage! Had enough left to capture this single frame of Montes Apenninus.

Fullerscope with 290m and baader 685nm filter, ES 2x focal extender. 

[Owmuchonomy]

Great to see a shot with the shadows across the uplands.

[Knighty2112]

Like it a lot!  

[CraigT82]

4 hours ago, Owmuchonomy said:

Great to see a shot with the shadows across the uplands.

Do you know what? I couldn't put my finger on why it looked different and you've just made me realise I've never actually been up early enough to catch the waning illumination before.... always been the waxing! 

[MilwaukeeLion]

Worth zooming in and viewing thanks.  Read was once speculated to be small herds of lifeforms roaming around crater Eratosthenes due to funky shadows.

[CraigT82]

14 hours ago, MilwaukeeLion said:

Worth zooming in and viewing thanks.  Read was once speculated to be small herds of lifeforms roaming around crater Eratosthenes due to funky shadows.

Yes I know exactly what they're talking about, the lines of craterlets that look just like animal trails!

[RT65CB-SWL]

Montes Apennius is one of my favourite lunar sites.

Below is a single image, I took several years ago using my Meade ETX105, (before the 're-mod') using the afocal projection method.

 

Below is a list of other equipment used...

• Meade 20mm Plossl 
• Beacon Hill Telescopes eyepiece projection unit
• Klee 2.8X Barlow lens
• Olympus 2.1 MegaPixel digital compact camera, (set to 'manual' mode), and a 32MB or 64MB Smartmedia card.
• Tele-Optic Giro 

I could only shoot as a .JPEG / .JPG as I did not have enough space on the card for a .TIFF at the time.

Edited September 22, 2019 by Philip R