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Hires Walter

Started by Wes Higgins, 11/12/2005 01:54AM
Posted 11/12/2005 01:54AM | Edited 11/12/2005 02:49AM Opening Post
Hi,

Walter a walled plain, Dimension: 145x145Km / 85x80Mi

18" Newtonian Reflector, Infinity 2-1 camera, stack of 634 frames.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

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Posted 11/12/2005 10:23AM #1
Posted 11/12/2005 11:07AM #2
Incredible work Wes, a festival of craterlets, detailed walls and shades of grey. Thanks for sharing!

Cheers & clear skies,
Oliver

http://www.astro-imaging.de/astro
Posted 11/12/2005 04:01PM #3
Just incredible Wes!! I think thats the highest res image of that crater by a wide margin! Blows your previous image out of the water! What was the seeing like? Must have been a 8/10 to get that fine a detail!
I love the fine detail in the overlapping craters L&K Monius on the left of Walter, just exquisite with the fine outer rim detail!

--Mike
Posted 11/12/2005 06:35PM #4
Stunning! Is this from the current lunar cycle or an earlier one?

thanks -
Alan

Alan Friedman

http://www.avertedimagination.com
Posted 11/12/2005 06:53PM #5
Hi Robert,

Thanks, the captures in Streampix are the same for the Infinity as the LU.

Wes Higgins
Posted 11/12/2005 11:50PM #6
A stunning image Wes!! The resolution is amazing. 8O

Regards,
Ed Roach
Posted 11/13/2005 03:17PM #7
Wes,

You just keep raising the bar.

OK, everyone, the lower right half of the crater floor is relatively flat. At about the 5:00 location theres a small well-defined craterlet, with a chain of 3-4 craters to its upper left and a "snowman" double crater just below. Got it? That's Walter Q, which has a diameter of 4km. I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to figure out the resolution of this photo.

Hint: I'm pretty sure at this scale you could see Yankee Stadium. 8O

Tim Iafolla
Posted 11/13/2005 04:54PM #8
Hi Wes,
What a trulky Gorgeous image! The detail is simply amazing.

All the Best,

Jim Phillips
Posted 11/13/2005 06:30PM #9
Hi Wes, that's a fine HR image!
I don't know if it's normal, but the left part from Walter (wall) is a little bit( how do I say) fussy ?
Correct me if a am wrong.
Regards Richard