Montes Recti Moon Image

Hi,

Here is another image from the first night out with the 18",
I hope you don't get to bored with moon images , I may be posting more images through next week.

Montes Recti (a small lunar mountain range) is located to the right of center and the land mass to the left starts to attach to Plato at the upper left corner,Plato was in shadow at the time this image was taken.

18" Starmaster, DMK-21F04 camera, 30FPS, stack of 330 frames from 660.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

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Hello Wes,



Very nice image. I never get bored looking at moon images. Post more if you have some.


Kirk

Wes,

yeah, yeah...I'm bored...besides everytime you take off in your space ship to the moon, it rattles the neighbor's windows!!

What a fabulous image!! Can't wait to see more.

Paul

Whoa. 8O I'm just stunned by those images. I think its safe to say that you just set a new bar for lunar imaging. I cant even venture to guess what actual resolution is of that image. Wow, there just aint anything to comapare to quality large aperature and great seeing. Just astounding, please keep em coming.

WOW!
It's just like being there!
OK, OK... better tell the truth here Wes, you have a contact in NASA and you are just scanning some of their lunar shots and posting them here, right? LOL!!!

Excellent shots my friend, keep them coming!



Ivan
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Yahoo! What an Image! Superb job Wes.

Jim Phillips

Words fail me..... just incredible Wes!

Simply magnificent Wes!!

Back in March I imaged this area and thought I saw some dome-like structures, they were not listed in the ALPO dome list. I e-mailed my pic with the features I thought to be domes to the yahoo group started by Marvin Huddleston (also an 18" Starmaster owner!) but never heard anything from that list about their status. later I found out that another group the Italian GLR (yahoo group Domilunari) was extremely active in lunar dome imaging and study. They thought my features were not domes but ridge swellings. Later a geologist in my local astronomy chapter of the RASC saw the pic and put me in contact with a Ottawa area Petrologist (someone who specialises in lava flow studies), this Guy was going on a trip to see Jim Head at a Planetary conference in Moscow. Jim Head was one of the NASA scientists who taught the Apollo astronauts lunar geology! Anyway Jim thought that the features may very well be undiscovered domes! Your image taken in much better seeing shows the feature labeled A dome (I attached my labeled pic) much clearer. The thing is after sudying your pic I found a feature there that looks like another dome!! This one is bigger than my A dome its clearly seen below and to the right of the tip of Montes Teneriffe at the top of your image. This may be un unknown dome, it was not visible in my pic because the shadow of Montes Teneriffe covered the areawhere the dome lies. If you like I can forward your image to the GLR group to see if anyone knows about this dome, or you can join yourself, its a small group with only 30 or so members. Sorry about the long winded post but its a long story and this is actually an area where modern imagers like yourself can contribute to advancing what we know about the moon!! Plus its exiting to boot!!

Heres the URL for GLR:
http://www.glrgroup.org/home.htm

cheers, and well done on a awesome image!

thanks

Mike Wirths

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