Smirnov

[MarkS]

Not the vodka variety but the wrinkle ridge - the Dorsa Smirnov.  Also in the picture are Posidonius at the top and and Le Monnier below it which has the incredibly flat floor.  Using the SPC900 webcam this is 100 frames of 0.2 seconds stacked in Registax.

[Daniel]

Wow, really nice, I've never tried stacking a moon image, does the SPC900 take long exposures too or does that require a modification?

PS, love the highlight coming off of that crater in the bottom right!

[MarkS]

Daniel, no the SPC900 cannot do long exposures unless modified.

[doug]

     That makes my photo of a newish moon, with my mini Olympus hand held through my ETX 70, look daft !!!  I`m not going to give up...yet, though.  The picture is really superb.  It seems people who take pix like this can outshine those old astronomical pictures of years ago, using large telescopes.  I am suitably humbled and impressed.

[doug]

   By the way, what was that blue highlight on the bottom right crater edge???

[MarkS]

Thanks for the comments Doug.  Thanks for pointing out the blue highlight - it must be something I introduced when processing.

To get a picture like that you just need a webcam (get the SPC900), a £20 adaptor from Telescope House so you can insert it in place of the eyepiece and preferably an IR filter also from Telescope House.  The software is all completely free on the internet.  I used IRIS for capturing the AVI movie file and Registax for processing it.

[Rocket Pooch]

nice one,

[Fay]

Nice & sharp, Mark. I did a few of the Moon the other night but there was so much turbulance & all mine were not quite in focus.