Lunar Images from Wed 4th Nov

[TakMan]

Seeing not as good as hoped, but managed to grab a few sets before the clouds rolled in...

This time imaging the waning crescent moon which made a nice difference and also reverted back to Mono8. Usually use Mono12p for solar, as find M8 gives some strange vertical column effects in the dark regions when stretching. Didn't happen this time, so must investigate that... wonder if it is something to do with the ambient temperature as cables and aquisition software (Basler Phylon) was the same...?

TEC140ED - TV 4x Powermate - Astronomik IR742 - Basler acA1920-155um (Sony IMX174m) - MacBook Pro

Processed in AS!2 (still can't work out how to run the newer v3 in 64bit WINE) and ImPPG (both via WINE) and PsCC2017

Image 1: best 600 from 8688 files. 8000ms.

Image 2:  2 pane mosaic, best 600 from 9920 files for each pane. Ran the camera at 7000ms.

Did finally try the Solar Continuum filter that Vlaiv recommended, but the exposures for that filter (to get the histogram the same as with the IR742,) was over 20,000ms and decided the conditions weren't a good fit for that. Must get a Red 610 long pass filter next to try (and/or the 685nm... or the Astronomik 642...), to try and find a good balance between steadying the image, speed and resolution. Any suggestions, please drop me a note here!

Inverted versions as I quite like the hidden details it reveals plus a final 'play' as an Anaglyph 3D - sort of works in certain areas, just a bit of fun!

Damian

 

Edited November 6, 2020 by TakMan

[maw lod qan]

Wonderful details! 

I do enjoy a nice lunar image.

[Stardust]

I have all those filters in a manual wheel , pretty handy for getting the best one for the night