Far back in the mists of ancient time ...

[Demonperformer]

All right ... it was October 10th this year ... I took my recently acquired SE6 and my newly acquired neximager into the front garden to photogaph the terminator of the nearly last quarter moon.

These were the very first images I took with the webcam, and having looked at them as avis, thought they were so bad they were not worth processing [i'm sure I'm not the only one with images like that in our collections].

Anyway, in the absence of any real telescope time in recent mornings, and beginning to suffer withdrawal symptoms, I decided to revisit these and see how they would process. They were all 1800 frame captures and [please remember I was only just beginning to work out the telescope's alignment by this time] the drift was so bad that in one of the avis, the whole frame drifted out of shot in about 2/3 of that time:o So, trying to see the glass half full, I cut that avi into two halfs using Virtualdub and processed two pictures.

Well, the results won't win any awards, but they are a considerable improvement on the original captures. I have attached them at 50% size, having cut out all the large areas of black stuff on the left of each pic.

I guess what I have learned is that it is always worth giving the processing a shot - you never know. Although I would add that there were also some captures in the series that not only looked too bad to process, they actually were - even Registax couldn't cope!!

DP

[johankj]

I like them, especially the first one

I've had similar experiences with Jupiter, where I've captured just a fuzzy blob avi, but then registax did its thing, and out pops a nice picture.

Did you use a moon filter for this? I recently tried my neximage on the moon through my sw127mak, but there was way to much contrast. You seems to have nailed it thought.

[Demonperformer]

Hi Johan

Thanks for your comments.

No Moon filter for these. I find that all my filters [moon, LPR, UHC] all make the object I am looking at turn green and find that weird.

DP

[astropete]

dont knock your pics, they are good enough for me. well done.

[johankj]

Hi Johan

Thanks for your comments.

No Moon filter for these. I find that all my filters [moon, LPR, UHC] all make the object I am looking at turn green and find that weird.

DP

I have read somewhere that a green filter can also be useful in imaging the moon, as it takes away some of the fringing, supposedly increasing clarity.

I usually turn my shots of the moon into monocrome anyway, have you tried that on the miscoloured shots?