Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Back to the Moon !

After a pause I am back to imaging the Moon. It seems each time I do I am in awe of this marvelous globe we are blessed to take the hit for us in terms of asteroids and space rocks!

All images taken with an 8" Meade LX200GPS telescope and a PointGrey Grasshopper monochrome 5mp camera, videos stacked in AS!3 and post processed with Luminar 2018 software.

Crater Aristarcus and Vallis Schroteri in Oceanus Procellarum:



Craters Copernicus, Reinhold, Lansberg & Eratosthenes:



Crater Kepler in Oceanus Procellarum:



Mare Humorum, Mare Cognitum, Mare Nubium with the Straight Wall in the lower right














Crater Copernicus in Mare Imbrium with Apennine Mountains, Craters Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus, as well as Sinus Aestuum, Mare Vaporum and Mare Serenitatis:













Crater Tycho and Crater Clavius (with multiple smaller craters in it)


 

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