Tycho re-processed from 5th Aug... Best yet!!

and a zoomed in view.

Southern Highlands.

Click here for a full size version.

Plato and Tenerife mountains.

The Moon & Pleiades composition 7th Aug 2007

Schiller & Gassendi

Pythagoras

Click here for a SMART-1 spacecraft image.

Aristarchus 7th Aug.

7 image mosaic.

Below; contrast enhanced version of the crater area. Below that, the crater a couple of days earlier.

Copernicus 7th Aug 2007

6 Image mosaic, using 2.5x TV Powermate and DMK21AF04AS.

The Moon was in a nice morning blue sky when I shot this.

2nd image - 3x TV Barlow.

Eratosthenes.

Arzachel

I love that crater to the right just going out of the picture.

Ina Caldera 5th Aug 2007

The tiny little 'D' indentation, right in the centre of the image.

Clavius re-processed and sharpened.

1st image processed in Paintshop pro.

2nd image sharpened in Photoshop CS2.

3rd image was an earlier single test image.

Clavius

4 x mosaic, using the 3 x TV Barlow.

Tycho

4 image mosaic.

Copernicus

I've never noticed that dis-colouration on the 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock position of the crater before now.

Plato to Cassini mosaic 5th Aug 2007

Hadley Rille... my best yet!

Produced from 2000 frame avi's.

Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Rupes Recta.

Big mosaic of one of my favourite areas.
Click on image for larger version, or here for full size.

Big Moon mosaic 5th Aug 2007

24 image mosaic, using DMK and f/6.3 reducer.
Click on image for larger version, click here for full size.
2nd image is a negative rendition of a portion, to show the ray patterns more clearly.

Three views of Jupiter 4th Aug 2007

M57 3rd August 2007

Here's M57 again using my Canon 400D and f/6.3 focal reducer... it's very small, with a bit of star-trail.

Moon 3rd Aug 2007

Canon EOS 400D and Meade f/6.3 focal reducer.

Apollo Hi-Res scans online.

To allow full access to the original flight films for both researchers and the general public, Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo flight films. Through this online interface, users may browse through the archive and download any of the images. This web site also provides a suite of resources regarding the images and the cameras that were used during the Apollo program. Finally, the scanning process is estimated to take three years with the first production scans recorded in late June 2007.

Credit above NASA


Although I hope they're better than this dusty example.

Various Moon images 8th August 2007

Seeing wasn't that great this morning, but it's nice to get out and image the Moon for a change.

Various lenses used:-
2.5x TV Powermate,
3x TV Barlow &
4x Imagemate.
DMK CCD.

Off topic again... just showing off my Canon 400D

You can see the sky in the raindrops though.

M57 LRGB image re-processed.

Here's a highly processed and enhanced version of my LRGB image.

Below is a hubble image to compare.

I know the colours aren't correct, but it's the best I can do at present ;-)

I love the two small stars in the centre, and the smaller ones in the ring at the 6 o'clock position.

The central star is 14.7-mag.

"The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years from Earth and has a diameter of about one light-year. The faint speck at its center was once a star of greater mass than our own Sun. Now, near the end of its life, it has ejected its outer layers into space, and the remnant is destined to die as a tiny white dwarf star, about the size of the Earth".

Credit for text above NASA

M13 - re-processed.

Here's the 30th July M13 re-processed using MaxDSLR and Photoshop CS2. Using a guide from Covington Inovations.

M57 - Canon EOS 400D image.

Stack of 13 images.
This shot, and all of the previous DSO images were taken with a full Moon.

M13 using Canon EOS 400D.

Here's a stack of 11 images taken using my Canon 400D. Stacked in Registax and processed in Paintshop Pro and Photoshop CS2.

M57 in B&W and colour.

Here's M57 again using my DMK and this time a 6.3 Meade focal reducer.

Below in colour using LRGB filter wheel at prime focus.

Mars LRGB

First use of my LRGB filters.
Mars was VERY low and there was a lot of turbulance, I was too tired to wait for it to get any higher.
Managed to capture a bit of detail, that was mainly on the red filtered image. The time was about 2:00 BST.

If I remember, I'm gonna get up at gone 4:00 ish tomorrow to catch it again, should be clear.