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Rimae Triesnecker And Alpine
Valley Rille (20190512 @ Jerusalem, Israel, Moon @ 63° altitude)
LX200 Classic Barlow + 4x 2, ASI 174MM 8b, FireCapture
and AS!3 (AP24, 5% stack,
Sharpened Blend RAW 50%*).
* Better than LRD 0.7i7 !
A large Moon mosaic a few days (20180927) after Harvest Full Moon ...
A large mosaic of the contrasted regions
offer a lot of very tiny details.
Date=270918, Mid(UT)=203000.5
,LX200 10, ASI 174MM
camera (1.0 ms exposures, 200 Gain, 50 Gamma, 60 s captures, 1513 frm per FOV),
15% frames kept in AS!3 with conv50. LRD 0.45 I 7 in Astro Image, Mosaic after
cutting bad borders in µsoft ICE, Finalization Irfanview.
same day ...
A nice First Quarter Moon ... 20170601
Very high Moon (65° elevation)
but still daylight then imaged @ 720 nm with Meade 10"
Classic and ASI174MM at main focus.
16b Mono, Average FPS 16, Shutter 6 ms, Gain 214 (53%), Gamma 90,
60s captures, ~1000
1936x1216 frames with FireCapture.
Registration AS!3, 15% kept.
AstroImage LRD 0.45 i 16. Crop Irfanview.
Mosaic of 11 FOV with Microsoft ICE.
Click image for 100 % size !
A second night of great seeing ... 20140313-14
LX200GPS 8" + DMK31AS
Full size available better seen with 2 monitors or an ultraHD
monitor
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LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 14 fields, 5400 frames out of 7200 (per field) registered with Autostakkert2!, wavelets RegiStax6, Mosaic µsoftICE
LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, registered with Registax6 + drizzle (left), wavelets RegiStax6, StarMax square function (left)
Plato, Tenerife Mountains & part of sinus Iridium ... LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 2400 frames out of 7200 registered + wavelets RegiStax6
A night of great seeing ... 20140312-13
LX200GPS 8" + DMK31AS
Around Copernicus ... LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 14 fields, 2700 frames out of 3600 (per field) registered with Autostakkert2!, wavelets RegiStax6, Mosaic µsoftICE
Around Tycho ... LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 14 fields, 2700 frames out of 3600 (per field) registered with Autostakkert2!, wavelets RegiStax6, Mosaic µsoftICE
Gassendi ... LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 14 fields, 2700 frames out of 3600 (per field) registered with Autostakkert2!, wavelets RegiStax6, Mosaic µsoftICE
Plato and Sinus Iridium ... LX200GPS 8" + DMK31.AS, 14 fields, 2700 frames out of 3600 (per field) registered with Autostakkert2!, wavelets RegiStax6, Mosaic µsoftICE
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Older images (2010)
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Would you believe ... through clouds ?
See the appearance of the AVi
captured with a good thickening layer of high clouds !
LX200 12" Registax5 Beta V5.1.5.7 (Pregrad)
Registax5, 700 best frames of ~1200 with drizzle 30% / 2X
Copernic, FD 10, f: 3000mmm 24/03/2010 19:30 UT
DMK21 7.5 fps, 1/8s exposures
The famous Alpine valley :
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Can be seen even if image is slightly noisy after strong wavelet processing
lots of small craters |
Reference partial image of Lunar Orbiter (1Mo Tiff)
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Details
TSC : Meade LX200 254 well collimated.
Barlow : 3x Televue.
Vesta Pro with B&W CCD
more soon ...