Monday Mooning - 14th March

[marktownley]

After a cloudy weekend, when I was at work on Monday there (typically) wasn't a cloud in the sky, so having to abstain from solar I decided the next best thing was a bit of lunar after sunset. Scope was the APM100/800 and the PGR camera at prime focus, for the closeups the APM 1.6x telecentric was used and the ZWO290mm. Seeing wasn't too bad, a few shots have a bit of crossover but pleased how these came out. Nice to do some visual at the same time too!

gibbous-moon by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Copernicus by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Mare-Humorum by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Mare-Humorum-Tycho by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Sinus-Iridium by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Tycho-south-pole by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Hope you like!

Mark

[rsfoto]

Hi Mark,

Excellent Moon images ...

[marktownley]

Hi Mark,

Excellent Moon images ...

Thanks RAiner, how do these look in terms of brightness on your monitor? The last lot I did were a little dark.

[Montana]

Superb!!! they look great on my work computer but then this is not calibrated at all so is meaningless

Glad you had some clear spells, the past 2 evenings the Moon has been behind thick haze, although last night we had a lovely lunar halo

Alexandra

[rsfoto]

Hi Mark,

Excellent Moon images ...

Thanks RAiner, how do these look in terms of brightness on your monitor? The last lot I did were a little dark.

Hi Mark,

As all this is question of taste and answering your question, yes they look good on my monitors, all 3

Nicely balanced as well as a very delicate sharpening as I like it. Well done ...

[KMH]

Those are really beautiful shots! They are perhaps a tad darker than average on my (uncalibrated) screen, but personally I think they look terrific that way.

Kevin

[MapleRidge]

These are very sharp lunar images Mark...nice work

Brian

[marktownley]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments!