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Posts Made By: Mike Wirths

March 16, 2006 04:15 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Alpine valley/Cassini/Callipus

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

I think this ones my favorite, lots of dramatic detail! The jagged shadows of the Alps, the cool steep walled crater Callipus to the right. Lots to look at. I used PS CS to finish the highlights.
Stack of 117/1200 14 align points.


--Mike W

March 17, 2006 11:12 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Aristillus Rays

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Yup more moon stuff.... this one did'nt have as sharp a seeing I think. I like the ejecta rays coming off of Aristillus. Its also kind of cool the way the peak Piton rises up out of shadow.

Stack of 110/1100 8 align points

--Mike W

March 17, 2006 11:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Hadley Rille

Posted By Mike Wirths
And the last one!! Whew! wink With this one I was trying to image through the green filter (a la Paolo L) to try and get more resolution, but I don't think the seeing was stable enough for it. This one would have been better with a higher sun and more FL! Still not too shabby.

--Mike W

April 9, 2006 02:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Widefield Copernican rays!

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Well the seeing was so terrible last night that none of the videos were usable even with the lowley 2.5 barlow! So I did an experiment to see if the Infinity would come to focus without a barlow and it does! So here is the beautiful ray structure around Copernicus, along with a few domes near the terminator. Not sure why but some odd horizontal lines in the bottom 3rd of the image...

still I 'm pretty happy with it, otherwise it would have been a washout evning!

85 frames stacked out of 550, R True Tech filter, Infinity 2-2 , Reg 3 8 align points

--cheers

Mike W

April 10, 2006 03:31 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Southern Lunar highlands

Posted By Mike Wirths
heres another one at prime focus in the 18"
a stack of 140/770
cool to see Tychos rays....

--Mike

April 16, 2006 03:17 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Janssen and Rheita valley

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

This ones from a while back, I did'nt like it at 1st but played with it in PS CS a little a dug a bit more detail out. Seeing was only fair. 8 points of alignment in Reg 3. Stack of 120 or so out of 1100. Infinity camera R+IR TT filter. 18" Starmaster 2.5X's barlow.

cheers

Mike

June 2, 2006 01:36 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Back from Baja

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Well my Wife and I are back from our camping trip to northern Baja. It was a lot of driving, over 13000km! We took a pop up camper with us designed for off-roading, since the road to the property we are looking into buying is still very rough!
Sadly I got no exceptional seeing this trip, perhaps just a bit of bad luck or it may be that I still need to find some local hill to set up on, but that may need to wait till we are building our house since the terrain is rough and I may need a bulldozer! The main purpose though was to get a feel for the land to see if we would like living there. It is amazingly still there, no sound of any sort of traffic, I only heard 2 jets the whole 4 day stay! After the moon set I got the feeling the sky darkness was better than at TSP! The one semi astro shot I got was with my telephoto of the moon rising over a moutain ridge. We plan to visit again this fall, but I will also try imaging from the observatory at the peak of the mountain. It was a very fun adventure!

cheers

Mike

June 2, 2006 01:56 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Atlas, Hercules, Endymion and Burg

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Its been very rainy since getting back plus the mosquitos are ravenous! 8O
Last night I had a very short window of usable seeing, I think I lost a lot of blood though, once while imaging I counted 20 mosquitos on my laptop monitor! If its not the cold here its the bugs!! :S
I think it was worth the lost blood though, I'm happy with the result.

18" Starmaster, Infinity 2-2, 2.5 Powermate barlow

--Mike W

June 4, 2006 02:58 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Posidonius and some cool Rimae

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Another one from a couple nights ago, this one has one of my favorite craters Posidonius, along with a few interesting rimae, Bond Romer and Chacornac.
See yesterdays LPOD for Chucks explanation

cheers

Mike W

July 17, 2006 03:02 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Big south pole!

Posted By Mike Wirths
Hi all,

Finally back to a bit of imaging, had about 1/2 hour of OK (5-6/10) seeing this am around 5:00. I think this is my biggest image yet, the whole Infinity 2-2 chip, so it needed a LOT of MAP processing... 24 points. I see though that there are a few areas that could be sharper so probably it needs around 30.
2-2 Infinity, 2.5X's powermate, R/IR filter, 18" Starmaster. Stack of 132/600

a few more to come...

Mike Wirths

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