Couple of Moon Mosaics 28-05

[Ant]

I'd forgotten how hard it is to take AVIs of the moon without drives So I bought a set of drives from FLO and after the initial test decided to have a go at the moon.

My scope, ED80, is not ideally suited to lunar imaging, but I think it did a decent job.  Along with the old DMK21 I captured some early evening AVIs, it was still daylight when I took these as I could see cloud coming in from the West, and wanted to capture something. So I did struggle a little with detail, as the contrast wasn't really there during daylight. 

Again not perfect, but I had a ball. The close up shots are ED80/DMK21 with a barlow. The other just the ED80 and DMK21. 

I can see a join that doesn't look right in one of the shots, so I'll revisit that at some point. But I was quite pleased with these !

Hope that you like. 

[MarkAR]

Really lovely detail and sharpness to the craters.

[russ]

Really nice work Ant. So much detail. The mosaic is excellent.

[WestCoastCannuck]

The closeups don't open for me for some reason.  But the full disc looks good!

 

Mike