The Moon, 11-12-10

[Takahashi]

Took a spur o' the moment drive up to the local wind-farm and parked-up for an hour or so. Took six 1000 frame vids @ 30fps through the 110mm refractor, but through some nasty, wispy cloud & airborne ice particles. End result? Not bad, considering. :

Seeing was awful... boiling, waving, wibbling, whatever... Nasty. Of course, as happens... I had packed up almost everything when I noticed the crappy, wispy cloud had all but vanished. Typical. The lappy's battery was toast by then anyway, and I was starving, so no biggie.

[Sierra Golf Mike]

That is a wonderful image. I am just about to start getting into imaging so I am really interested in the kit you used for this and the process of getting the frames into such a cracking image.

Cheers

Steve

[Dave Smith]

Very nice Ivor.

I love these big shots.

Dave

[brantuk]

That's a good sight better than "not bad". Smashing moon scape you've captured there

[Nexus 6]

Some people's not bad's are others aspirations.

Superb to my eyes Takahashi.

Alan

[Luke]

Lovely shot, Ivor, really inspiring to see all those craters. big and small, in crisp detail.

[Takahashi]

Thanks guys... I still have yet to get the hang of exposure times with the DMK - there's a bit of blow-out around the limb, and I've over-sharpened it a bit - evident in the slightly geodesic crater edges. However, I am happy to be making progress - this recent weather & car problems have made this my first outing for many weeks.

[nightfisher]

exellent image, i know what the "seeing" was like as i was gonna give it a try, but the moon had a right halo round it ...........job well done