Near Full Moon, 20 Nov

[brianb]

The night of 19-20 Nov being clear and the Moon just two days short of full shining brightly and reasonably high in the sky, it sort of demanded to be imaged:

2010 Nov 20. William Optics FLT 110, 2x Powermate, W29 (deep red) filter, Imaging Source DMK41 camera. Mosaic of 20 frames captured between 0119 & 0142 UT, each frame being a stack of 200 frames out of 800 captured, processed in Avistack V1.81. Mosaic processing by Microsoft Image Composite Editor. Post production in Photoshop Elements v5. This is a 25% rescale; a full size version can be found here - select "hi res image" from the zoom menu.

A small sample of the full size version is shown below.

Transparency good. Seeing poorish with significant continuous slow boiling. Temperature +4C, wind SE force 2, baro 1014 mb rising slowly.

Colongitude 74.2 deg. Illumination 97.1%. Solar inclination -0.9 deg. Libration in Latitude -05 deg 05 min. Libration in Longitude -04 deg 21 min. Lunar diameter 30.72'. Altitude 41.2 deg.

[Beyond_Vision]

Very nicely captured as usual Brian.

Regards

Kevin

[dc509]

The hi-res version on the link is stunning! Great image

d

[Doug]

Hi Brian

Just great images, love the depth of the craters and so clear

Doug

Essex

[Dave Smith]

Very impressive Brian. In spite of it being nearly full Moon there is some lovely detail there.

Dave

[Steve 1962]

Very nice indeed Brian!

[nightfisher]

very nice image`s brian, keep up the good work