I was checking through some of the moon Avi's that I took last night & spotted this crater in one of the images - I stacked a 100 frames & resized X2 & then cropped the crater. I think that detail is great - according to my Moon Atlas the central mountain is only 1000m... I'm really pleased with the 5-inch MN I purchased - seems better than the Tal or my technique has improved...
Image looks great if you stand back from your monitor 5ft or so...
Cheers, John
PS - I'd love to see some shots through the Vixen or LX90 with X3 or X5 barlow....
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/moon_171105_b.jpg)
Crikey ! Great detail - Tony will be jealous !
Cheers - must admit I was pleasantly suprised - I'm thinking I might have to get a X5 Powermate - I'm sure scope can take it when conditions are good (also be good for saturn & Jupiter). I'm also sure that Chris & you could get much better images than this with your setups... I love to see some... It would be interesting to hear Tony's comments.. I'm not sure if he frequents the forum or not..?
John
ok its cold, but I'll point the lx90 at the moon with a 3x in a minute
This was with a 2x
(http://www.jumpers4goalposts.org.uk/images/Astronomy/Moon/Moon-10-20051119.jpg)
(http://www.jumpers4goalposts.org.uk/images/Astronomy/Mars/Mars-10-20051119.jpg)
:-)
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