Plato & Montes Apenninus (13th Nov 2021)

[rob_r]

Hi,
A selection of captures from last Saturday evening near the terminator around Plato and the Montes Apenninus region. It has seems an age since I last imaged the moon and the session also afforded the opportunity to add a Powermate 2.5x to the imaging train. The seeing seemed OK to me and a number of rilles (Rima Bradley; Hadley; Plato; Hyginus) are subtly visible in the images including Vallis Alpes and dramatic shadows cast over the Plato and Copernicus craters.

Scope: SkyMax 127
Mount: EQ5
Camera: ASI224MC (via ASICap)
Capture size: 1304x976px
Capture format: RAW8

Widefield shots
Gain: 200
Exposure: 5ms

Close ups
Gain: 400
Exposure: 4ms

Best 25% stacked of 3000 frames in each widefield image; best 10% stacked of 3000 frames in the close ups using AS!3. Wavelet sharpening via Registax 6, final level adjustments in Photoshop.

Thanks for looking.

 

[neil phillips]

Top image  for me. Though all good. Those Maks are great