Moon 5th October - 36 hours past Full

Here she is, last night - a composite of two shots taken through a Meade ETX105 OTA (1470mm f14) with Sony A700 DSLR at prime focus. Stitched and retouched with PSE5.



Enjoy!

Paul.

Hi Paul - that's a lovely crisp shot.

As it happens, I was out having a smoke and for the frist time on goodness knows how long, I took out my binoculars to take a look at Selene. It was a lovely sight. If its clear tonight, I'll take out the 70mm refractor and get some real eyeball time instead of just sat in front of the PC

By the way, I know very little about lunar features at all. Can you tell me what the bright spot is at the 10 O'Clock position? It was very clear in the binos...

Cheers
Dave

Paul, that's a nice shot, the craters on the terminator show up well. May I ask what program you used to stitch the shots. I have canaon photostich, but don't find it very good.

By the way, that Dave, the feature at 10'clock I think is Aristarchus.

Keith.

Thanks guys!

Dave, that is indeed, as Keith says, Aristarchus at 10 o'clock.

Keith, unusually I used the "Create Photomerge Panorama" function in Photoshop Elements 5. Usually I'd use Serif Panorams Plus 2 which is fantastic with big mosaics but will sometimes just refuse to stitch two photos, which is what happened here, hence plan B!

Paul.