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Bruce Williams Commander of the Wild Empire Registered: January 2007 Location: South Northants Posts: 3,284	Shows Hadley Rille - site of Apollo 15 landing. . To get an idea of scale, the largest crater (Archimedes) is 50 miles in diameter. . See annotated version for location of Apollo 15 landing and crater names. .
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	Keywords: moon hadley rille apollo 15 archimedes autolycus aristillus
	Camera Information: DMK 21AU04 (mono) image upsized from 640x480
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welshcameraman

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Location: Swansea, South Wales
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Fri June 4, 2010 4:22am

A cracking couple of images, but what did you attach the camera to?....Am i right in thinking you need a telescope or can you use a good lens?

Martin

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Bruce Williams

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Fri June 4, 2010 11:46am

Thanks Martin

. Yes you're right this image was taken through my 8.5inch newtonian telescope.

The DMK21AU04 camera uses webcam technology to take a large number of frames (2,400 in this instance). These frames are processed through a free stacking program (Registax) which selects and aligns the best x frames (x is user defined) which are then stacked to reduce noise. The stacked image is then enhanced using a collection of user controlled processes called 'wavelets' (this bit is still something of a black art to me???)

Bruce

welshcameraman

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Fri June 4, 2010 3:43pm

I'm thinking an expensive bit of kit and looking at your previous moon shots (with a D300) quite new to. But I reckon well worth the cash and great fun as well..... Here's to clear skies at night.

Martin

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Bruce Williams

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Sat June 5, 2010 6:17pm

Sorry for late response Martin.

I bought my telescope in the late 1980's and to my shame it's been under sheeting for the last 18 years. It did get used quite a lot back then - but only for observing. The DMK21 astro camera retails at about £290, however they do come up second hand and I got mine at the beginning of May for quite a good price. The camera is PC controlled via USB2 and the software (IC Capture) came with the camera.

To be accurate I should mention that I also employed a barlow lens (c. £25) which effectively doubles the focal length of my scope.

Bruce

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