Panorama - West of South Pole

Hi all,

This one is from the early hours of 12th August when the seeing was quite good
and fairly consistent for the 3 AVIs in this mosaic. The libration was
particularly favorable for Bailly and the two craters Drygalski and Hausen on
the limb.

This is the first image that I have done with the occasional help of reading
glasses, which has made me realize that the enlargements that I have been so
fond of may well be pretty pointless for people with better close up vision! I
like the way the x0.9 version has turned out due to the extra sharpening that
the size reduction allowed.

The image below is a heavily jpeg'd version of the x0.9, the linked images are
much clearer -

http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/116915200/original x1.1
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/116916592/original x0.9
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/116916531/original x1.3


10in f4.8 Newtonian, Infinity 2-1M, 5x Powermate, green filter, Avistack,
Registax v.5, PSE5, Focus Magic, 3 image mosaic

exposure 26 ms, gain 5.5-6.7, 100-200/2500 frames

Regards,
Stefan

Attached Image:

Gorgeous shots there Stefan! I've only seen hints of some of that real estate in my scope; it's nice to see what they really look like.

Jason Higley

That is amazing work. I thought I was getting good at imaging the moon until I saw your image. I hope you try to image the LCROSS impact.

Stefan, excellent work! Do you know of a good avistack tutorial? I've never had success with that program. I just picked up some reading glasses myself last weekend so I am hoping they will improve my focusing. Of course having good seeing like yours would be nice.

Regards,
Steve