Aristarchus and others

[CraigT82]

Poor seeing last night. Very wobbly image on the capture screen. As usual though AS3! And Imppg have done their stuff and made it worthwhile in the end.

8.75" fullerscope with APM 2.7x Barlow and Altair Astro gpcam3 290m with IR filter (baader 685nm). 5000 frames captured and 500 stacked. 

Cheers

Edited March 7, 2020 by CraigT82

[Stargazer33]

Lovely sharp images Craig! I'm going to have to upgrade my Windows XP computer so that I can download updated software. 

[Altocumulus]

Stunning!

[Stu]

Some beauties there Craig! I was observing those areas last night, great to see some excellent images of what I was seeing. Thanks!

[Nick Smith]

Fantastic, Craig.  Maybe a bit too much smoothing going on in these particular images?

[CraigT82]

7 hours ago, Nick Smith said:

Fantastic, Craig.  Maybe a bit too much smoothing going on in these particular images?

Thanks Nick, by smoothing do you mean noise reduction? It's tricky to process when the seeing is poor... I usually end up overcooking it to compensate 

[Nick Smith]

Yep, exactly Craig.  I know we are all trying to get the most of the data we have available, but sometimes reducing the noise reduction (or using no noise reduction) gives the impression of a more detaled image.  

[Ruud]

Well done Craig! Excellent images!

[CraigT82]

23 hours ago, Nick Smith said:

Yep, exactly Craig.  I know we are all trying to get the most of the data we have available, but sometimes reducing the noise reduction (or using no noise reduction) gives the impression of a more detaled image.  

Yes I know what you mean. The floor of clavius looks very smooth when it isn't in most images. Though on this one even without the NR it is featureless as the seeing was pretty poor... I've really struggled to get any fine detail that night

 

[Pete Presland]

Superb end results, plenty of really nice detail visible there.

[Nick Smith]

On 13/03/2020 at 20:55, CraigT82 said:

Yes I know what you mean. The floor of clavius looks very smooth when it isn't in most images. Though on this one even without the NR it is featureless as the seeing was pretty poor... I've really struggled to get any fine detail that night

 

Which is why I keep coming back to Lunar/planetary imaging after all these years.  You can go out one night and that will be THE night of all nights!