Wide moon 5/5/06

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

As the moon was very boily last night I went wide with the DSLR. The webcam stuff might process, but I doubt that theres anything worthwhile.

First is just DSLR on the frac.

And then Barlowed 2X

I tried the mak. but the boiling was too intense, I think my skies don't get good enough seeing to be able to use the 2000mm focal length, so the frac. was the weapon of choice. When I put the 2X Barlow on the boiling issue wasn't as intense so I think the seeing got better. Both 'scopes had been outside in the van so I don't think cooling down was an issue.

Well done to the others who have posted moon pictures, they're looking very good.

Captain Chaos

[CELESCOPE]

very good images CC i especially like the second one , looks really goos and well detailed bit of imaging , excellent CC keep them coming

yup i found that it was only about 6/10 last night on the moon , but i did get some fairly close in ones .

Rog

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Noticed them Rog, time to test the new smiley

Captain Chaos

[OXO]

Very nice CC considering the conditions

[geppetto]

Second one's my favourite

Shows up those rays very well and gives the moon a nice sense of scale.

How lucky are we to have the old moon to pop away at 8)

[Jamie]

Hope you don't mind CC but i had a wee play with the second image.

[FLO]

Hope you don't mind CC but i had a wee play with the second image.

He beat me to it

Nice image CC and nice processing Jamie

[Naz]

I like the second one Capt, plenty of detail. The first one looks as though it suffering a bit from poor focus.

naz

[Jamie]

Sorry Naz but i must disagree with you there i would say its more a processing thing or lack of it.

Here it is as played with by yours truly.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Wow Jamie. Imagine what it might look like is my processing skills were any good! The raw data that I mangle ought to work out even better than what Jamie did to the single image (reduced in size and pre-mangled) if I get my head round the software. Must practise more.

Captain Chaos

[Jamie]

CC there is no great secret to it.

The thing to realise is that most stacked moon images appear kind of soft

in texture/sharpness.

All i did to your image was to open it up in Registax 3

then darken it a little by pulling the gamma line to the right a little.

Then i adjusted wavelet 2 to about 10.

All done!!!!!

[Naz]

Stand corrected, just looked as though there was a bit of CA on the edge.

naz

[FLO]

... just looked as though there was a bit of CA on the edge.

There is....

[radioactive]

very nice moon pics CC very pleased for you mate

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

... just looked as though there was a bit of CA on the edge.

There is....

Should have used the fringe killing filter. Doh!

Captain Chaos

[FLO]

Should have used the fringe killing filter. Doh!

Its not severe - probably easier to remove it in Photoshop.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Now fixed. Drew round it with a marker pen.

Captain Chaos

[FLO]

Eerrrrr .... yes .... or the old marker pen trick

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Now there's a funny mark on my monitor. Oh, shouldn't have done that. :oops:

Captain Chaos

[FLO]