Plato

Hi all,

Heres my Plato where I accidentaly used my 5X's powermate instead of the 3X's, I remember thinking geez I don't remember Plato being that big...duhh! It seemed though that this extreme image scale worked out, as the seeing was temporarily 7/10. I stacked 109 frames in Reg 2 and processed them in Images plus, there are quite a no of craterlets visible here!! I'm astounded by the level of detail one can capture with a webcam on the moon! Oh yes I used my 18" Starmaster (driven).

--cheers

Mike Wirths

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Wow. What a great shot. It warms my heart to see you guys with the big light buckets pointing them at the moon instead of cussing the moon for wiping out DSO's. Thanks for sharing this!

Pam

Hi Mike,

I look at Lunar and planetary images all over the web
and very few of them make me say Wow out loud as your Plato
image did , great image and your Copernicus image is
amazing too .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Excellent. Very very nice. Beautiful job.

Jim Phillips

Beautiful shot Mike!
Nice & smooth contrast, and great detail...


Thanks,


Ivan

Mike,
Awesome shot!
By my calcs, a 5x powermate on an f/4.3 18" scope will yield 0.1 arc-sec per pixel on a Toucam (5.6u pixel size)
That's high resolution, the image clearly was not limited by pixel size!
Way to go,

Len