In Moonlight

[jgs001]

From Saturday... Had another play with the 6"RC

20 Pane mosaic, each pane, 250 of 1000 frames. QHY5v, GSO6RC. Stacked in AVIStack, merged in ICE. 300 frame dark and flat used.

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I had a play with also using the Ultima barlow, but the seeing was not up to it.

Clavius

Plato (this came out better though)

I did try and create a mosaic of the mountains, from Copernicus to Plato, but had some odd behaviour in the exposure... despite leaving it the same value... I've no idea why

[teh_orph]

Very cool. I esp like the Plato shot. Do you find using dark + flat frames help when shooting bright things like the moon? I've never thought of trying!

[jgs001]

Thanks, yep... especially with all the dust my sensor seems to suck onto itself...

If I can find a way of converting the fits (that's how AVIStack saves them) to a jpg... hmm.. screen grab ?? I'll show you.

[teh_orph]

Ah I see. I do get a lot of dust which I'm having real trouble cleaning from one of my cameras. Would this help me then? Eventually I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and find out how to clean them!

Btw I use this FITS viewer: The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator v.2.3 | ESA/Hubble

Seem pretty comprehensive.

[jgs001]

That did the job ... Here you go..

Dark

Flat

[teh_orph]

Nice, thanks for sharing! You're gonna have to clean it at some point though

[jgs001]

That's after cleaning... you should have seen it before hand...

[praesepe]

They are beautiful shots, love the close ups of Plato and Clavius especially.

[jgs001]

Thank you

[brianb]

Very nice full disk especially if the seeing was as bad as the closeups suggest. You're getting good images from that QHY5 ... but I think a clean & dust capping afterwards might not do hany harm ....

[jgs001]

Thanks Brian... It was. Not sure how best to clean this, my attempts to date are obviously not working as well as I'd hoped. The camera lives with the nosepiece and UV/IR filter fitted (I took it off once to try some RGB (big mistake), I know we discussed I should replace it with a clear, but not at the moment, also not sure what effect that might have on my guiding.

[MrsR]

Stunning, my 1 year old twins appreciated it too and said "moon" when they saw them.

[jgs001]

Thanks MrsR... Glad they liked it

[Gadget]

Very nice images i love the way Plato is highlighted and the rest just fades into the shadows thats a great image

Kevin

[neil phillips]

The mosaic has come out well, seeing hasnt been good lately at least around here, contary to what i said on johns post i think i can just save a medium res small clavius moretus mosaic. so it was pushable but still dire. But we really do crave those calm nights were better things become possible, as Brian suggested your seeing looked bad too by the looks, in those cases i think a full mosiac looks nicer, so you did the right thing concentrating on that

[jgs001]

Thanks guys.

Neil, it wasn't great... I'd really like a bit of decent calm to really push this scope and see what it's capable of... Not sure I really want to try a mosaic at 3x the focal length, at least not until a crescent phase anyway... but 2x would be good.

[satnavsatnav]

Good pics the moon as been battered

[jgs001]

Thanks