The Moon Gallery
20150425
The first quater Moon captured with the 4" Perl Vixen Fluorite 102/900 refractor at main (JMI motorized) focus
Registered with AS!2 (forced RGB) mode
Processed with Lucy Richardson Deconvolution 0.46 / 10i
Click on image for full size
20150401
The Gibbous Moon captured with the 4" Perl Vixen Fluorite 102/900 refractor at main (JMI motorized) focus
Captured with AD drifting (as described
for the Sun in Halpha elsewhere on this site) in 60s as it doesn't fit in
the FOV at that focal lentgh (see below)....
Registered with AS!2 in surface extend PNG (forced RGB) mode
Processed
with Lucy Richardson Deconvolution 0.56 / 11i + Max Entropy Deconvolution
0.4, 30i
Click on image for full size with lots of small details !
FireCapture v2.4.09 Settings
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Observer=sweiller
Location=STR
Scope=Fluo102/900
Camera=ZWO ASI174MM
Profile=Moon
Filename=Moon_214648.ser
Date=010415
Mid(UT)=214718.251
Duration=60.092s
LT=UT
Frames captured=2525
Bit depth=16bit
ROI=1472x1200
FPS (avg.)=42
Shutter=2.660ms
Gain=11
USBTraffic=60
Above : single
frames with framing to show the FOV of the 1936 x1216 pixels ASI174MM ! Click
on Moon a look of frame quality in full size.
20150326
The Moon before first Quarter as captured with the 12" LX200 GPS
Click on image to see it in 100% acquisition
size !
Reprocessed,
thanks to Dmitry advice, with Lucy Richardson
0.6 / 18i in free version Astra Image 3.0 SI
Old version with wavelets here
Lx200 GPS 12" (305 mm)
at main focus (with camera in vertical
position), ASI174MM camera,
Processing :
Registration
AS!2, Enhancing Astra Image 3.0
SI, Panorama
Microsoft ICE + better parts re-introduced with PSP.
FireCapture v2.4 Settings |
20150325
The Moon as captured with the ASI174MM camera (4" refractor)
Fluorite PV 102/900, top
image Meade 3.3 reducer, bottom image at main focus (with camera in vertical
position***), ASI174MM camera,
Processing AS!2, Wx.
***
Click on image to see it in one piece ... in horizontal
position !
FireCapture v2.4
Settings top image |
FireCapture v2.4
Settings bottom image |
A colorful Moon with a basic consumer camera !
20150105
For this first full Moon of 2015
I wanted to do something special ...
I did try an experiment : revealing
the
colors
of the Moon with a simple
camera ... no scope at all !
With a Canon SX220HS at ISO 100
I took 17 handheld pictures at full zoom (14x). The Moon takes about 2% of
the frame ! Registered 14 with AS!2.
Increased saturation
in PS with a dozen of [CTRL-U value 20] many times, Aligned color layers
in RegiStax6 then Sharpened in experimental Wx.
An interesting effect is with rotated colors (above). Below natural saturated
colors,
single
picture and 14 pictures registered.
Here is the beautiful Last Full
Moon of 2012 done by Philip Smith, US
(who
needed just some place to be able
to share it with others in high resolution) ...
Click on the pictures below to open much larger images !
PhilipSmith.jpg)
PhilipSmith.jpg)
Full Moon Dec 10 , 2011 (just after a full
eclipse visible around the Pacific Ocean)
click on images then '+' for full size !
Saturation
enhanced version to give ground chemical informations : 
The example above shows that for the Moon,
the Meade ETX 90 (1250 Focal length) is perfectly matched with the Canon EOS
(APS-C) cameras. Here I used a 40D with remote PC shooting.
The Moon was 'moved' around the screen in between each shot to avoid being obliged
to make a flat. RegiStax5 (CR2 to aligned PNGs) and RegiStax6 have been extensively
used to process 50 original CR2 pictures. Color saturation with CS.
April 4, 2009
Near First Quarter
20090401
PerlVixen 100/902 fluorite refractor, BW russian made
VAC 135 Camera,
single AVI done by moving slowly the Moon in the capture window to have all
of it recorded
then registered with Registax5 on Theophilus (crater present on all frames)
using stack option "expanded to maximum image size".
Get full resolution by clicking on image.
The Largest Full Moon of 2009 (Jan 11) !
It was very cold at least for people around Paris ! I used a Canon 10D plus extender 1.4 behing the Perl-Vixen 4" fluorite, 1/100s at 100ISO. 23 CRW images were registered and processed with the latest beta Registax5 version under tests using a fusion mask on wavelets ! Color processing of the same image in PSP.
Click on image for larger size ... or HERE for original size (7 Mo picture !)
Moon, 2.56 days old
Mosaic of 6 pictures taken on March 8, 2000, 18H36 UT
with a Connectix greyscale Quickcam (optics removed but IRcut filter) in
320x240 mode
Celestron 8" at F/D=4 (2 reductors)
Note : Earthshine was easily visible wih the n:aked eye but does not show
here.
Moon, 6.17 days old
Mosaic of 3 pictures taken on Feb 11, 2000, 17H03 UT
with a Logitech Quickcam Pro (optics removed) in 640x480 mode
Celestron 8" at F/D=4 (2 reductors)
Gibbous Moon
Mosaic of 9 pictures taken on Feb 16, 2000, 19H40 UT
Same conditions as above
Full Moon
Mosaic of 9 pictures taken on Feb 20, 2000, 00H14 UT
Same conditions as above
How was it done ?
Earthshine (Moon 2,56 days)
15 images taken Mars 8, 2000, 18H47 UT combined
15 darks combined and substracted, median filter
Connectix greyscale Quickcam (optics removed but IRcut filter) in 320x240
mode
Celestron 8" at F/D=4 (2 reductors)
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22nd, 22H19 TU |
24th, 00H19 TU |
26th, 01H51 TU |
28th, 02H21 TU |
Moon , 300mm FD 5.5 Makinon, QC PRO
Jan 2000
The Moon "eyelashes"
Picture taken on Feb 11, 2000, 17H24 UT
Logitech Quickcam Pro, 640x480 mode
Celestron 8" at F/D=10
Logitech VC, 135mm FD=8
Nov 30, 1999, 00H57 TU
Even with such a simple lens you have an interesting image !
3D Moon eclipse (Jan 21, 2000)
Step
by step Lunar Mosaic
The Moon taken with different Webcams
(with Perl Halley 70 refractor)
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