Posts Made By: Mike Wirths

Wow Alan thats a superb result! We're whining now about Jupiters low altitude, but doesnt it get even worse in the next couple years?
Time to go south I say

--Mike

Hi Wes,

A beautiful very natural image! Yeah the low altitude gets to be a pain in the butt! I think I'll be concentrating my time on te last quarter moon from now on, at least the altitude will be a bit better!
BTW was this shot with a 4X's powermate? It looks like it is, I've beeen waiting and waiting and waiting for seeing good enough to try imaging with my 4X's but no joy yet! It would be nice to have a variable barlow sometimes ideal image scale according to the seeing lies between the 2.5 and 4X's!

nice to see images from you again!!

Mike

VERY dramatic shot Wes!! Pretty darn good for an "old" image!!

--Mike

Hi Wes, Thats a great result! Especially with the image scale you were imaging at together with the not so good seeing! A great natural image that shows much processing restraint!
I've been busy here trying to get my haying done here on our farm but the rain makes it hard! Plus 2 days ago my round baler caught on fire due to an overheating bearing, lucky I had lots of drinking water on hand! Maybe we will all get some better conditions for the last 1/4 moon!

cheers

Mike

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Wow Wes, this is a wonderful shot!! I love how the "lip" of the Ariadaeus rille varies so much in its thickness. Its very evident in your shot which is a testament to its resolution. Beyond just the resolution aspect thuogh its the tonal representation thats makes this image, like looking out the portal of an orbiter!


--cheers

Mike

8O 8O Wow, holy crap Wes thats an amazing view, kinda ominous like the name implies! I think thats the most detailed view of lacus Mortis that I've seen including Bruno Daversins (although his was under higher sun angle). Very cool with the raised fault line and the graben like structures inside!!
One thing though and I wondered why you posted the image a fair bit on the dim side. This bit I'm about to say is more of an aside on lunar terminator imaging rather than a nitpick about your glorious image.
I few months back I posted an image of Aristillus and the view right along the terminator, it got some nice comments but I was unhapy with how it looked about from the black to about 200-300 pixels in. It had a kind of "thin" unreal look to it, I suspect because the signal is so dark that this is in fact insufficient bit depth. Do you (and others) also observe this effect? Your image has that same effect(especially when brightened in PS using the higlights/shadows feature), I wonder how it could be rectified... I suppose a image stack of a few 100 more rather than just the 150-300 we usually do. This would mean taking a lot longer video sequences which is problematic for atl/az drive scopes like yours and mine...
The upcoming Registax may have a solution though, Cors trying to implement a derotate feature where it figures the distance of rotation from the 1st to last frame, if this works it may be a work- around to this problem.

any thoughts on this

cheers

Mike W

Eric looks like you got a good result!! Worth all the sifting through 15000 frames! You must have been going X-eyed after a while!

--Mike

8O Wow Alan, I count over 25 craterlets! Awesome! How come only a 400 video stream, were you cut short by clouds? That must have been yesterday morning, I looked out my window and saw Capella twinkling furiously so I went back to bed :S This am I was out again and saw Plato deep in shadow, pretty spectacular, but the CSC was wrong it was only ok seeing.

great result hope you did a bunch more!!

cheers

Mike

A superb image Miguel! Very well processed and detailed! One to be proud of!

--Mike

Really exquisite Alan!! I love the edge on views, very 3-D!
Do you notice a big difference in resolution between green and red filter?


--cheers

Mike