Moon images

Post date: Aug 24, 2013 6:25:55 PM

Al S. and I mounted his Nikon D7000 camera on my LX90 ACF 8 inch F/10 to image the moon. The setting were:

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Nikon D7000, 1/1600 second, ISO-6400

Mounted at prime focus of a Mead LX-90 ACF 203mm F/10

Registax 6.1.0.8

Stack of 13 images with 200 alignments and stretched contrast

Cropped and saved as JPEG in IrfanView 4.35.

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Bullialdus Crater Region

Nikon D7000, 1/1600 second, ISO-6400

Mounted at prime focus of a Mead LX-90 ACF 203mm F/10

Pre-processed in IrfanView 4.35

Cropped and resized 50%

Registax 6.1.0.8

Stack of 23 images

~200 alignmpoints

Stretched contrast