Petavius in shadows 2006.09.10.

Hi all,

finally the moon reaches suitable altitudes at nighttime for lunar observers and imagers on the northern hemisphere again
Petavius was a great view last night with the terminator right through it. Bright central peaks surrounded by subtle lit floors and structured walls appearing right out of the darkness. Seeing was quite unfavorable but I was in lunar imaging mood so I had to capture the event, here the result:



I tried a new imaging workflow this time: Image capture was done with Coriander under Linux in my camera's 10bit mode, the raw data dump converted to FITS with ImageMagick&Fitswork and fed into Registax. Heavy seeing influences required 10 alignment points and quite a lot of postprocessing. Some more limb & terminator studies are to follow.

Best wishes & clear skies,
Oliver

Hi Oliver,

I almost missed this image, I'm glad I did not because it's an excellent low sun image of Petavius, the images gives an idea of how rough the floor of Petavius actually is.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Oliver -

a very nice image - I love the look of the far wall of Petavius in this strong light.

best -
Alan

Hello Oliver,

Very nice image with great detail in the walls! I assume when you talk about MAP processing, you are talking about the beta version of Registax? If not, please explain.

Sincerely,
-JW:

Good image Oliver - nice to see someone else using Coriander too!

regards, Anthony