Hey guys.

Watching the moon swim and change shape in bad seeing is quite interesting.. except when you want nice crisp views and nice crisp images.

Here's a couple of luna shots in very ordinary seeing..

Details:
Scope: 10" dob without tracking
Seeing: 3.5/10
Transparency: 6.5/10
Capture: ToUcam 10fps, 1/50s, 0 gain, 0 gamma, 95% saturation
FL: ~3100mm, using 2.4x barlow pulled out and ToUcam pulled out
Processing: 1-2 frames stacked, photoshop filters and contrast/levels adjust

Pretty disappointed with them because they're just not as sharp as I'd like, but the seeing was just too bad..

Clavius - This is a single frame as there were no sharp frames to stack.




Mercator, Campanus and Kies - This is a stack of a couple of frames. Check this region in Chuck Wood's latest article in S&T "Bumps on the Moon".. obviously my image is not high enough resolution or sharp enough to really compare to the magazine shot, but anyway..



Thanks for looking.

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Both very good efforts iceman. I especially like the one of Clavius, it's very good.