Lunar Crater Close Up (I had Excellent Seeing finally!)

[TheButcher]

Hi All,


Here is the Moonscape I did. I wrote up all the details and such on my website so I just copied and pasted it here. I send them out to my family and friends and I try to explain it to them as simple write-ups.

Thx for looking

(Copied from my website)

"This is a Moonscape that I did on August 25th. The seeing was about average most of the time, but I then caught about 20 minutes of Excellent seeing. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

It was captured with my Apertura AD12 Dobsonian Telescope that also has rings that I put on it and strap it down to my iOptron CEM70 mount. The Cem70 handles the payload like a champ. I think it was about 60 lbs on there and I used 60lbs of counterweights all the way at the end for balance.

I used my ZWO174mm Astro Camera with a Telvue “Big Barlow at around 3.5x". And I could of went higher but instead took advantage of the excellent seeing. After about 20 minutes, the seeing deteriorated a bit and then became hazy but I got a few more in.

I processed it with Autostakert 3 (AS3) then Put it in to Registax for Wavelets and then the finishing touches in PhotoshopCC with the Camera Raw filter.

I took 3500 frames and I stacked 8% of them to produce this final image.

Click to the right to See it Really Zoomed in on my site:> https://astronebula.com/moonscape-of-lu ... 25th-2021/

[Lady Fraktor]

That is a fantastic image of the surface!

[Makuser]

Hello TB. This is a fantastic lunar close up image with the 12" Dob on the CEM70 mount. Amazing details, especially with the magnified version on the astronebula site. Thanks for sharing this capture with us TB and I have nominated you for a TSS APOD Award for this wonderful work.

[TheButcher]

Hello TB. This is a fantastic lunar close up image with the 12" Dob on the CEM70 mount. Amazing details, especially with the magnified version on the astronebula site. Thanks for sharing this capture with us TB and I have nominated you for a TSS APOD Award for this wonderful work.

Thanks Mak, Lady and All

[Ylem]

That's awesome!
Looks like you took that from orbit

[Gordon]

Congratulations Brian on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!

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[MistrBadgr]

Do you have a space ship to go up and take pictures of the Moon with, like AstroAvani does? All I can say is Wow!

[TheButcher]

Do you have a space ship to go up and take pictures of the Moon with, like AstroAvani does? All I can say is Wow!

Thanks Gordon, MistrBadgr, and all

And about that spaceship MistrBadgr, I actually converted my AD12 to be a Plazma powered Cannon to shoot the 174mm camera out with a lens attached to it. Once my mount was aligned with the moon, all I got to do is press the red button and it went on its way to orbit the moon. But my Next target will serve a different purpose. It will be armed with a laser beam this time and aimed at the Starlink satellites and take em out one by one like Atari's Asteroids game.

Also here is another image that I just finished that I shot a few moments after this one.

Click to the right for the Zoomed in version at my site: https://astronebula.com/moonscape-august-2019/



This one is composed of 3 images that I took around the same area as the first one. I used AS3 and a little PScc
Click to the right for a Zoomable version on my site: https://astronebula.com/moon-mosaic-of- ... gust-2021/


Thanks again all for looking and for nominating me for the APOD