Afocal Clavius

[lunator]

I took this a couple nights ago.

I handheld my fujifim S5700 up to the eyepiece and videoed the image for 30 seconds.

Used virtualdub & registax to create an image.

Quite pleased with the result

Cheers

Ian

(click to enlarge)

[SteelRat]

Decent shot that Ian - great result 8) steady hands

[Dave]

Ian,

I was impressed with your image, Would you mind if I have a fiddle with it?

I am using a new piece of software that should sharpen them up but I can't take any new images to test it out as my cloud magnet is working too well here. No chance of me seeing the Moon or anything at the moment.

Dave

[lunator]

Dave

feel free.

I can email you the original bitmap image if you want?

Cheers

Ian

[Dave]

Here's one from your posted image.

(click to enlarge)

E Mail me the original, hopefully it should come up better with more data there.

Dave

[moondog]

Ian - great image for hand held afocal.

De-saturating the image would get rid of the slight colour fringing on the craters' etc.

I've attached the de-saturated version with high pass filter sharpening and a bit of shadows & highlights adjustment in PS.

8)

MD

[Greg]

Nice Ian..Very nice...

[lunator]

Cheers everyone

Dave I'll send you the original image.

[beamer3.6m]

Thats a good image for afocal and especially handheld.

[Ant]

Thats fantastic for a hand held shot!

Afocal, IMO, as quite hard to focus - you've got that pretty damn good!

Ant

[lunator]

Cheers Ant

The seeing from London on the 6th was pretty good. Almost as good as Greg's garden in Devon......

When I could see about 20 craters visually in Clavius I thought it would be worth a crack at videoing the image.

Cheers

Ian

[saturn5]

Thats a great effort,i would be pleased with that result on a tripod.