Up close and personal

[geppetto]

Been admiring the close up moon images posted here over the last few days so decided

to have a go even though it's not my thing really.

Anyway, set up this evening with the 200mm F6 reflector and Toucam with a 2x barlow at prime focus.

Collimated the scope till it was spot on and took a load of AVI's of the moon, some with and some without

the barlow.

This one was using the barlow, 100 frames Registax.

Very pleased with it

Off now to see what else I caught..

[Kain]

Not your thing eh?

Looks fantastic mate! I have alot to learn.

Kain

[legion48]

Great shot. What sort of magnification would this have been?

[geppetto]

What sort of magnification would this have been

Good question.. not quite sure how to work it out with a Toucam

but I know that I get a similar sized view through a 6mm eyepiece

as I get on screen with the camera.

Scope is 1200mm focal length so assuming about 6mm then magnification

is 200 times, then theres the barlow so double that to 400 times.

Seems a bit much that but would be interested to know how to work this out.

Kain

Save up for a Toucam mate.

You can get these images even with the DOB mount 8)

[Kain]

Lack of laptop mate!, Would need a blumming long cord from the flat to outside lol.

Kain

[geppetto]

Lack of laptop mate

Ah right...

You have to laugh, I used to cart all my desktop puter outside

with a bloomin heavy 17" crt monitor. Took about 20 minutes to set up

You can imagine my feelings if clouds then raced over

[SteelRat]

Great image Phil 8)

[Johnny Hormone]

cool images chap, I cant wait to get out there and start giving this kind of thing a go.

[lunator]

Phil

Very nice image, some excellent detail,

Cheers

Ian

[Kain]

Lol I have a spare DT in the bedroom..

Laptop is on the shopping list to be honest, just looking around one for the right price, and when I get some more cash together.

Kain

[MartinB]

Spot on again Phil. Excellent close up. Scope is performing well

[richard42]

that is a great image, what type of feature are they? they're not mountains, but kind of look like raised up flat craters? :insects1:

still what ever they are there great to look at!

[Astroman]

They're craters, but the low Sun angle makes them appear raised instead of depressed. A negative image of this would show the difference. Truth be known, they look raised to me, too. :shock:

[richard42]

thanks astroman, at least i'm not seeing things

just one more reason why the moon is such a wonderful thing of beauty!

[daz]

Here you go