Tycho, Clavius & Maginus

Hi all,

Here are some more images from October 14th when I had some good seeing.

Tycho & Maginus
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/71420820/original
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/71427220/original - large (1.5x)
3 frame mosaic, 900/5000 frames each, MAP: 12x 128

shadow filled craters east of Maginus
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/71429372/original
This may seem a bit pointless or too arty to some but I have
deliberately left it dark with minimal processing. It looks good to me
on my crt and... well yes, fairly pointless on the laptops harsh lcd ;-)
900/5000 frames, MAP: 12x 128

Clavius
http://www.pbase.com/slammel/image/71589044/original
resized x2, 170/5000 frames, MAP: 45x 64 (ie. not the 2x/preregistered
method, was 48x but removed 3 after lost tracking during alignment). I
have gone for extracting as much detail as I could with this one and
the tonal quality suffers. Selected a smaller percentage of frames and
a relatively large dose of processing, using gaussian blur here and
there to cover my tracks a bit (pixelization).

10in f4.8 Newtonian, DMK 21AF04, 4x PowerMate, red filter, Registax v4,
PSE 5

Regards,
Stefan

Attached Image:

Excellent work, Stefan - my favorite is the original size Tycho mosaic.

"Arty" is not a four letter word!!

best,
Alan

Wonder ful images. I like tine overall tonality of the mosaic.

Thanks for sharing,
C

Hello Stefan,

Outstanding images of Tycho and Maginus! Super detail, nice shadows and contrast.

Congrats,
-JW:

The Tycho & Maginus image is outstanding Stefan! I still have a ways to go to get processing as nice as this.

Regards,
Ed