Stofler Maurolycus

[neil phillips]

Playing with some data from the 29th April 12" Stella lyra. very careful process. 

Edited June 11, 2023 by neil phillips

[Mr Spock]

Lovely image quality 👍

[Kon]

Excellent. The craterlets are really well resolved. The bigger craters have a nice 3d feeling to them.

[900SL]

Excellent resolution.

[neil phillips]

Cheers guys. The goal is to extract as much detail for the size of the scope. But with little to no noise. still looking at least partially Natural.

Edited June 12, 2023 by neil phillips

[Space Cowboy]

Phenominal level of detail!

[neil phillips]

8 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Phenominal level of detail!

Cheers Stuart, data was reasonable. Not perfect, just slight heat disturbance. But good focus. And 12000 frames enables cherry picking down to 545 Frames. I like the edge of seat processing. Up to the noise point, but not over. I used 1 top wavelet linear registax further sharpen analyzer. Quite simple

[Steve 1962]

Hi Neil

That's a stunning image. Congratulations on getting in bang on (to my untrained eye anyway 🙂)

What camera did you use for it please...and, probably a daft question, but when you use your Stella Lyra 12" Dob - how easy do you find it in terms to the fine positioning for lunar imaging?

Cheers

Steve

 

[neil phillips]

On 12/06/2023 at 19:25, Space Cowboy said:

Phenominal level of detail!

Cheers Stuart when seeing allows. These big mass produced scopes can perform clearly 

 

[neil phillips]

On 30/07/2023 at 21:30, Steve 1962 said:

Hi Neil

That's a stunning image. Congratulations on getting in bang on (to my untrained eye anyway 🙂)

What camera did you use for it please...and, probably a daft question, but when you use your Stella Lyra 12" Dob - how easy do you find it in terms to the fine positioning for lunar imaging?

Cheers

Steve

 

Cheers Steve it was the 178mm. which isn't particularly sensitive. But slightly larger chip. If you mean how easy it is to get on a particulate area ? its the same really as any scope. yes it weighs a ton. But i am using the EQ6R. If you mean how well does it track. that's mostly polar alignment. And balancing. The better both are, the better the tracking will be 

[Steve 1962]

On 06/08/2023 at 21:21, neil phillips said:

Cheers Steve it was the 178mm. which isn't particularly sensitive. But slightly larger chip. If you mean how easy it is to get on a particulate area ? its the same really as any scope. yes it weighs a ton. But i am using the EQ6R. If you mean how well does it track. that's mostly polar alignment. And balancing. The better both are, the better the tracking will be 

Thanks Neil - that makes sense - I was only asking in case you were using it on the Dob mount. Does the EQ6R cope with the 12" ok?  (I sold all my AP a while ago and I'm missing it, so I'm looking at £££ efficient ways of getting back into Lunar.)