My best this year... Aug 17 - 67% Waning

[WestCoastCannuck]

Long time my Lunar amigos!   This year has been dismal.   I have managed only a few sessions due to crap weather.   Had two decent nights this past week though in our current heat wave.   This one is the best of them,  and the best so far this year.

Detail pretty good on this one...  feel free to zoom further than 100%.   Hadley very visible and lots of other hidden stuff.   

2 piece mosaic,  26mp.  APM 140 F7 at F10.5.  (Siebert Optics 1.5X Telecentric Barlow).   ZWO ASI2183MM.   2 panels of 3000 frames, the best 300 of each stacked.   Software:  Firecapture,  IMPPG presort to 1200 best with 1.3 gamma.  AS!3 stacking.  Astra Image:  fine and medium wavelets.  Finishing:  Lightroom 6.

 

Here are a few (poorly) labelled 200% crops with some features that caught my eye.

 

1.  Apollo 15 landing site.   2.  Hadley Rille

 

1.  Hyginus Rille  2.  Ariadaeus Rille  3.  Hypatia Rilles   4.  Lunar Domes Arago Alpha & Arago Beta.    (thanks Laurieast! )

 

Abulfeda Crater and the Abulfeda crater chain - about two dozen little craters in a line possibly formed by a comet fragment impact.

 

 

 

 

Clear skies everyone!   Back to clouds here.   SO glad I setup on my deck for this early morning session before work.  Forecast was perfect so had too....  and it almost was perfect!  haha  Quite good enough anyway.  :)))))

 

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by WestCoastCannuck
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[Kon]

Great set of images with nice sharpness and details.

[Laurieast]

Nice shots! 

Your Domes: Arago Alpha & Arago Beta

 

[WestCoastCannuck]

37 minutes ago, Kon said:

Great set of images with nice sharpness and details.

  Thanks Kon!

6 minutes ago, Laurieast said:

Nice shots! 

Your Domes: Arago Alpha & Arago Beta

 

Thanks Laurie!   I appreciate the identification.     Have added labels.  :))))))

[Laurieast]

17 minutes ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

 I appreciate the identification. 

Your very welcome, nice to see somebody from BC, I know it well, my son lived there for ten years. 😃

[Sunshine]

Wonderful lunar image! 

[WestCoastCannuck]

Thanks Sunshine!

23 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Wonderful lunar image! 

 

[neil phillips]

Good to see you getting some reasonable seeing Mike. Its been a while. Lovely result. Super natural detail. Just like I remember. Haven't done any serious lunar myself for quite sometime. Planets taking my attention a lot. But i will at some point. Processing looks seriously good. The detail speaks for itself. In your so unforced way. 

[maw lod qan]

Always nice seeing excellent lunar images! Well done!

[baggywrinkle]

Great images

 

[WestCoastCannuck]

17 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Good to see you getting some reasonable seeing Mike. Its been a while. Lovely result. Super natural detail. Just like I remember. Haven't done any serious lunar myself for quite sometime. Planets taking my attention a lot. But i will at some point. Processing looks seriously good. The detail speaks for itself. In your so unforced way. 

Thanks so much Neil!   Hope you are doing well.  :)))  Glad to see you are active!   I will try planets eventually.   Need more aperture.  lol

12 hours ago, maw lod qan said:

Always nice seeing excellent lunar images! Well done!

Thanks much!

4 hours ago, baggywrinkle said:

Great images

 

Thanks!