aristarchus the lunar lighthouse

Hi all,
here is an image of aristarchus the lunar lighthouse.

here it is lash away.

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02,march,2007, New Haven Observatory, Balbriggan. CGE 14" @ f/33. Lumenera SkyYnx 2.0. Astronomik Red Filter. Processing Registax, CS2, and Images Plus 2.8 (Adaptive Lucy-Richardson).i captured 3000 frames 1000 used at 35 frames per sec.

Another fine image Carl! You're getting the hang of that camera alright.

Carl - that's a nice image.

Would you like to do better?

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Dave

Nice image you got there Carl, but it registers as just a bit too blurred, and dark, in my opinion. I know you said before you like the darker 'setting', but it should be brightened up quite a bit really. Sometimes it can look like a lunar image was shot with a lens from a pair of sunglasses in the way! Doesn't look very natural.

Hope you don't take this a meaning it takes away from the work you've done, as I am sure it is just a matter of tweaking the raw image in e.g. Photoshop or something.

Seanie.

A good image, and a difficult crater to get right due to its range of brightness.
I had a look at this on Thursday night and clearly seeing the rille next to it that you have in the image,
I also think its abit dark, photoshop would bring that up for you.

Out of curiosity, would you consider the image I put up early this morning of the the full moon to be too bright, I wonder is there a monitor calibration thing going on here.

Nice image you got there Carl, but it registers as just a bit too blurred, and dark, in my opinion.

Seanie to be fair to Carl, Aristarchus is not know as the lunar lighthouse for nothing. The floor of this crater is very reflective , so in order to see any detail in the crater you need to under expose the rest of the scene. Failing that the crater floor would be burned out.

I think Carl managed to capture the crater details very well!