Saturday's Moon

The moon was spectacular last night, and the photo below does not do it any justice. The craters along the terminator formed a veritable mountain range. The seeing was quite good, and with the high altitude of the early evening, this made it a sure for a nice photo. I decided to rattle of about 10 shots, and stacked them later in Registax. This took forever, as each photo was about a 46MB TIFF. However the results after stacking and Wavelet processing were quite good so I didn't bother with further processing. Here's a link to the hi-res farm1.static.flickr.com/158/433945669_68bf96223e_o.jpg make sure you blow it up to full size to get all the detail,
and heres a low-res of the result. I reckon this is the best I've gotten yet.


Canon 350D - C102SLT - 9 x 1/25s exposures at ISO100.

I'd agree, definitely your best to date.
Lots of detail visible around the upper mare, very nice,

You're getting pretty handy at those lunar shots John!

John - that's a lovely image. I checked out the hi res version and its really good.

The framing is excellent too.

I think you may deserve to be the Resident Lunar Imager of IFAS...

Dave

I was pleased to see this image included in Junes edition of The Sky at Night CD.

Well done John!
Very nice detail there.

I never got my CD this month...
got the case alright but no disc...
Booo!