FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

[Zakalwe]

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[bknight]

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Adrian and rodent breath are hacking into your system

[AtomicDog]

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That is a gorgeous photo. How'd you make it?

[Zakalwe]

That is a gorgeous photo. How'd you make it?

Thanks. 
18 individual panes stitched together. Each pane was something like the best 1000 out of 5000 frames, stacked together (so-called "lucky imaging") using an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain C11 and a ZWO ASI 174 camera. I can't remember if I used a filter or not, but if I did it would have been a red longpass 610 nanometre or infra-red 742 nanometre filter. Either of those will filter out the shorter wavelengths which tend to get messed about from atmospheric turbulence. The longer wavelengths are much more resistant to the effects of poor seeing.

[onebigmonkey]

That is a gorgeous photo. How'd you make it?

Thanks. 
18 individual panes stitched together. Each pane was something like the best 1000 out of 5000 frames, stacked together (so-called "lucky imaging") using an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain C11 and a ZWO ASI 174 camera. I can't remember if I used a filter or not, but if I did it would have been a red longpass 610 nanometre or infra-red 742 nanometre filter. Either of those will filter out the shorter wavelengths which tend to get messed about from atmospheric turbulence. The longer wavelengths are much more resistant to the effects of poor seeing.

You can see Hadley! And Taurus-Littrow!

[bknight]

That is a gorgeous photo. How'd you make it?

Thanks. 
18 individual panes stitched together. Each pane was something like the best 1000 out of 5000 frames, stacked together (so-called "lucky imaging") using an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain C11 and a ZWO ASI 174 camera. I can't remember if I used a filter or not, but if I did it would have been a red longpass 610 nanometre or infra-red 742 nanometre filter. Either of those will filter out the shorter wavelengths which tend to get messed about from atmospheric turbulence. The longer wavelengths are much more resistant to the effects of poor seeing.

You can see Hadley! And Taurus-Littrow!

I can see the Hadley mountain range, but not the rill

[Zakalwe]

You can see Hadley! And Taurus-Littrow!

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I keep meaning to image the Apollo landing regions, but time, weather and lunar phases always seem to conspire against me. Maybe a project for this winter?

I can get in a bit nearer if I up the focal length by using a Barlow lens. The panes in the big image were captured at 2.8metre focal length.
In good seeing, I can get semi-decent results (I live at sea-level which is about as bad a place to get for this game)...I can just about make out the rille running along Vallis Alpes in this one



In really good seeing I can use a 2.5 Barlow lens to get me to about 7 metres focal length. The small crater on the left-hand wall of Copernicus is just under 3km in diameter.



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[Zakalwe]

Hadley Rille can be seen in this one:

[bknight]

Hadley Rille can be seen in this one:

Now that one I am able to see.

[onebigmonkey]

Fabulous photos!

Oh, and I said I could see Hadley, I never mentioned the rille

[Luke Pemberton]

Beautiful photos

[said it before]

It makes me think 'if the CTs invested their effort in the beauty and reality of Apollo, how richer their lives would be.'

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[bknight]

Fabulous photos!

Oh, and I said I could see Hadley, I never mentioned the rille

There is something else besides the rille, named Hadley?

[onebigmonkey]

Fabulous photos!

Oh, and I said I could see Hadley, I never mentioned the rille

There is something else besides the rille, named Hadley?

Mons

@Luke - I have a similar view about aliens, ufos and other such daftness - the universe is amazing enough as it is, I don't need to sprinkle fairy dust on it.

[Luke Pemberton]

@Luke - I have a similar view about aliens, ufos and other such daftness - the universe is amazing enough as it is, I don't need to sprinkle fairy dust on it.

That's a good way of putting it. I never quite understood Ralph Rene and his desire to 'prove' Einstein wrong. The physics of special and general relativity is mind blowing and explains so much of our Universe.

[Zakalwe]

@Luke - I have a similar view about aliens, ufos and other such daftness - the universe is amazing enough as it is, I don't need to sprinkle fairy dust on it.

That's a good way of putting it. I never quite understood Ralph Rene and his desire to 'prove' Einstein wrong. The physics of special and general relativity is mind blowing and explains so much of our Universe.

To be great and do great things you not only have to dedicate yourself to education, hard work and critical review by your peers you also have to be intelligent and in Einstein's case, a genius. It's far easier to make up some nonsense and convince a few similarly-minded sycophants. Creating a YouTube video is a darn sight easier than a PHD thesis. Plus, it's a far easier way to make a buck or two. You only have to look at Mormonism, Scientology, Sibrel, Rene, Percy, Marcus Allen, The Blunder and others for evidence of that...