Efforts from Oct 15. 70% Waning. C11 and 140 refractor.

[WestCoastCannuck]

Hey all.  Finally got finished (for now) my processing on my second night with the C11.   Given tracking issues I had with the C11 (working on sorting that) I am frankly THRILLED with the images.   I wish I did more with the 11 on this night - due to frustration I mistakenly gave up too early thinking I was not getting anything useable.   

I am nowhere near resolving to capability...  but resolving more than I ever did with my 8,  so I am off to a good start.  :))))

First off my 140 mosaics.  I still and likely always will love doing these.

I struggle HUGELY so far getting decent colour out of my colour cam.   Maybe I will get there one day.  Probably the answer is to just forget about it,  and layer a DSLR colour image in the mix over my mono.   Anyways,  here it is.  APM140 F7 + 2X barlow and qhy 5-iii 485c.   (8.3mp - 2.9um pixels)  It is 7 panels.   Shows slightly more resolution than the smaller scaled 183MM mosaic that follows.  Looks more mono than anything.   The alternative was purple.

 

Next,  my usual 2 piece mosaic with 140,  183MM, 1.5X barlow (could have ramped this up I see now) and 520nm narrowband filter.   Slight brown tone added.

 

And now, we move to my CPC1100 shots.   All with 290mm and 685nm bandpass filter at prime.   All images the best 600 of 10K frames.

 

First off...  my favourite of the night.  2 piece mosaic.  Easily my best capture of the Lamont Mare Ridges.   The Arago domes show up fabulously here too in this libration and scale.   Hyginus and Ariadaeus rilles also show well.

 

Next,  a 3 piece mosaic of part of the VERY busy lower terminator.    Way too many features here for me to list....  just enjoy the cruise!

Finally,  a single panel capture I am mainly sharing because it has my best Hadley down in the lower left corner.   Still,  also has a nice view of the upper area of  Mare Serenitatis and the lower portion of the Caucasus Mountains.   Valentine Dome is also visible.   

 

 

So,  I have bested my best efforts of close work with any of my other gear - past and present (C8, 180MAK, VMC200L) - on my first two nights with this bigger 11 inch instrument.  I am happy.  Now just need to fine tune and go for gold!  haha   (SEEING and sky permitting of course  LOL)

 

To close off....  the new double mount setup for imaging.   So far,  I am finding the beastly CPC1100 manageable.   I will no doubt be putting it on a wheeled cart at some point though as I ever rapidly approach 60 turns around the sun.

 

Clear skies to all!!

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

Edited October 21, 2022 by WestCoastCannuck

[ONIKKINEN]

Looking very nice, all of them. Especially the long 3 panel mosaic looks very dramatic and imposing with this light.

Regarding RGB, the image must be well colourbalanced before attempting to pull out anything with saturation. Registax 6 auto RGB does a decent job most of the time, give it a try and see if it works out for these ones? Usually necessary to tweak a bit afterwards, but its much easier when there isnt a single overpowering hue masking the image.

[Mr Spock]

Lovely set of images 👍

[Chris]

You get a sense of the powdery lunar surface looking at these, great set! 

[neil phillips]

Loving that bottom shot Mike. You're going all low gamma on these. Or something similar

[CraigT82]

Very nice Mike, tough to beat sheer aperture on the moon 

[WestCoastCannuck]

3 hours ago, ONIKKINEN said:

Looking very nice, all of them. Especially the long 3 panel mosaic looks very dramatic and imposing with this light.

Regarding RGB, the image must be well colourbalanced before attempting to pull out anything with saturation. Registax 6 auto RGB does a decent job most of the time, give it a try and see if it works out for these ones? Usually necessary to tweak a bit afterwards, but its much easier when there isnt a single overpowering hue masking the image.

Thanks much!  I will give registration a try.

[WestCoastCannuck]

3 hours ago, Mr Spock said:

Lovely set of images 👍

Thanks Spock!

 

1 hour ago, Chris said:

You get a sense of the powdery lunar surface looking at these, great set! 

Thanks Chris!  Mission accomplished!!

[WestCoastCannuck]

1 hour ago, neil phillips said:

Loving that bottom shot Mike. You're going all low gamma on these. Or something similar

Thanks Neil!   No gamma!  Lol.  I still may have a go at  the data again though...  🙃 

[WestCoastCannuck]

24 minutes ago, CraigT82 said:

Very nice Mike, tough to beat sheer aperture on the moon 

Thanks Craig.  You are so right!  At least for closeups!  

[neil phillips]

1 minute ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

Thanks Neil!   No gamma!  Lol.  I still may have a go at  the data again though...  🙃 

Oh ok looks darker just wondered 

[Kon]

Great images!