Moon - March 15, 2005

Hi All

New lunar image using my SV-102, a Celestron .63 reducer and an ATIK2HS camera with a Astronomik type 2 green filter. Stack of 412/1200. Seeing wasnt the greatest last night, but this came out pretty good anyway. It all just barely fit in the frame. I layered the image onto a 800x800 black background in Paintshop to improve the asthetics. This is how it looked im my 13mmT6 nagler before i shot it. The image is full size as shown

Thanks for looking

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Hi John,

Great image, thanks for posting.

Ed Roach

Very nice image John. Ah, for a clear sky...
Great shot!

Jim Phillips

A lovely moon!

Alan

Thanks guys!

Lunar imaging is almost as much a joy as DSO imaging for me. Here is that Ha filtered image i mentioned before. The difference i notice from the green filter image is that the limb its not blown out and the detail in the terminator is the same or slightly better. I'm really not sure if Ha is any better than using a green filter. But the results look promising to me.

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Excellent!
Beautiful detail!


Thanks John!