25-1-2021 - Aristarchus & Vallis Schroteri

[Jamescook1971]

The 2nd clear(ish) night in the space of 3 days in mid-Essex - I am really getting spoiled now! Makes a change from week after week of grey cloud.....

Night of the 25th looked promising early on but there was a bit of moisture in the air (a quite impressive large halo at some points) and a bit of wind, the end result was it wasn't anywhere near as good as the 23rd which was very good (I got a lot of data that night that I still need to work up into a full moon mosaic).

This is the best 700 of 5000 frames shot with the GPCAM3 290M on the Skywatcher 200P, EQ6 + 3 x Focal reducer - stacked in AS!3, deconvuluted in AI and finished in Photoshop (levels etc.).

A great combination of features in this small space - the super-bright Aristarchus, the wonderful sinuous Vallis Schroteri and the Montes Agricolo stretched out to the north.

[messier 111]

very sharp shot , thx .

[Juno16]

Beautiful image!

[Makuser]

Hi James. A superb image of Crater Aristarchus and Schroter's Valley. As a lunartic myself, I really enjoyed your capture. You have very sharp details and nice surface details. Thanks for sharing this great work with us on here James, and keep looking up.

[MistrBadgr]

That is a really nice image! I am beginning an intensive and hopefully long lasting study of the Moon with my larger telescopes. I will refer back to your image when I go for the Aristarchus area, just to check on what I see really is.

[Ylem]

Very nice, love the lighting