Category: Lunar scraps
This image was shot when the Moon was between 3 and 4 days old. Mare Crisium is lit completely, as are the surrounding mountains. To the South of Mare Crisium you can see a patch of darker material, Mare Undanum. To the east a part of Mare Marginis is visible. North of Mare Crisium lies the big crater Cleomedes with four smaller craters and a small peak on its floor.
This is a more detailed image of the Mare Nectaris region. On the western edge of Mare Nectaris you can see three craters lying in a crooked row, Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina. West-southwest of Catharine you can see the brightly lit Altai Scarp rim with a total length of 480 Km. The �Rupes Altai� end at the crater Piccolomini in the south. On the southern rim of Mare Nectaris lies Fracastorius.
Here’s another image from my last lunar observing session (Sunday 16 January). You can clearly see the three big craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina on the southern half of the Moon. Through the telescope, Rupes Altai was the most prominent feature with its brightly lit rim. Rupes Altai marks the southwestern rim of the Nectaris Basin. As I promised earlier this week, a more detailed report will follow in the Solar System section.
Last night, I observed the Moon for a few hours. A detailed observing report will follow later in the Solar System section. After I packed up it was getting cloudy. The thin layer of clouds racing in front of the Moon gave the whole scene an eery look.
Last night I shot some images of a 10-day-old-moon. Here are the first results. A detailed report with more images will be published in the Solar System section on my website. All images where shot with the TAL 100RS (4-inch refractor), a 25mm Vixen Lanthanum eyepiece, the Nikon Coolpix 4500 and three Baader filters: IR/UV filter, Contrast Booster and Fringe Killer.
Overview of a 10-day-old Moon
Southern part of the Moon with Schiller (large elongated crater near the terminator)
Mare Humorum with the large crater Gassendi to the North
Western part of Mare Frigoris with the big crater J. Herschel to the north and Sinus Iridum and Plato to the south
On the evening of October 30 there was a lot of fog and high clouds in the air, but from 21.00 hrs UT till 22.30 hrs UT I managed to take a quick look at the Moon. The Moon was 16 days old and the terminator lay over the centre of Mare Crisium. I only shot
On Friday night around 23:30 UT I shot some images of the Moon from my backyard. The 14-day-old Moon stood low above the southern horizon, and looked deep orange.
The colour image was shot with the Nikon Coolpix 4500 and the TAL 100RS (4-inch refractor) using a 20mm Vixen Lanthanum eyepiece.
After processing the image the contrast between the dark mare and brighter highlands become clearly visible. In the Mare itself you can see darker and lighter patches of Mare material. The Tycho and Copernicus lunar rays are also clearly visible on the processed image.
The image was stacked and processed using Keith’s Image Stacker. I stacked 19 original images (1600x1200, 1/15s, f3.3, ISO 100, spot metering) into 1 new image. The image was processed using unsharp masking and some adjustment of levels/histogram.
Last night I tried to capture the Clavius and Copernicus region with the TAL 200K and the Coolpix 4500. I used a 10mm eyepiece ( 200x ) and 3x optical zoom to shoot the images below. I also used the Baader IR/UV blocker and Contrast Booster. The first image is a close-up of the Clavius area, the second is Copernicus and it’s surroundings. The orientation is at it looks through the telescope. I did some unsharp masking on both images.
