Aristachus (and with Colour) and Gassendi

[jgs001]

After patchy clouds and some rain in the afternoon, the sky cleared late last night except for some fast moving stuff, so I grabbed the Skymax and NexStar and had a go at webcam imaging on the moon again.

First up Aristarchus, this is a toughy to get the exposure right, made extra hard by the laptop running in dimmed mode (on battery), I really need to do something about that, as it's making focussing a right pain in the posterior (more than normal I mean ).

I thought I'd see what it looked like with a saturation stretch too

Then onto Gassendi

[jgs001]

Any thoughts, suggestions or comments ?

[Imahumanbeing]

Sorry John, you know that I haven't got much experience. But they are great pictures, the white crater in the first 2 pictures looks kind of strange, quite white and flat. I like the 3rd picture the most, great colours, great picture.

[jgs001]

Thanks Jamie. That's Aristarchus, and it's amazingly bright. It's blown out completely ... I'm not sure how to expose that properly, it's one of those real tough challenging bits. Wait till you see it and you'll know what I mean.

[Imahumanbeing]

Aristachus, maybe its so white because its quite a young crater?

[jgs001]

Apparently that's indeed the case... although at 450 million years old if wikipedia is to be believed, it's a rather relative young

Any Lunar experts can give me some hints on how to expose this area to not blow Aristarchus ?