3 Hours 45 Minutes of Sunrise over Crater Maurolycus | Crater Shadow Evolution 18th February 2021
This video shows the evolution of crater shadows as the Sun rises over lunar Crater Maurolycus. Above Maurolycus you can also see sunrise over Gemma Frisius and Goodacre. To the lower left, you can see the rim of crater Licetus has become illuminated by the final image.
Images taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The telescope was on an EQ5 tracking mount, tracking at lunar rate. The Moon was a 40% illuminated Waxing Crescent.
I took a 2,000 frame video of the crater using SharpCap Pro at 17:22, 18:42, 20:12 and 21:04 GMT which was shortly before I lost the Moon behind a tree. I stacked the best frames using Autostakkert! 3; depending on the video quality I stacked between 50 and 70% of the frames. The stacked images were processed in Lightroom and turned into a video using Movie Maker 10. The first image was taken before it got dark so it isn't as crisp as the other images in the set.
I love seeing how shadows evolve over time and each time I watch this I see something else interesting!
3 Hours 45 Minutes of Sunrise over Crater Maurolycus | Crater Shadow Evolution 18th February 2021
This video shows the evolution of crater shadows as the Sun rises over lunar Crater Maurolycus. Above Maurolycus you can also see sunrise over Gemma Frisius and Goodacre. To the lower left, you can see the rim of crater Licetus has become illuminated by the final image.
Images taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The telescope was on an EQ5 tracking mount, tracking at lunar rate. The Moon was a 40% illuminated Waxing Crescent.
I took a 2,000 frame video of the crater using SharpCap Pro at 17:22, 18:42, 20:12 and 21:04 GMT which was shortly before I lost the Moon behind a tree. I stacked the best frames using Autostakkert! 3; depending on the video quality I stacked between 50 and 70% of the frames. The stacked images were processed in Lightroom and turned into a video using Movie Maker 10. The first image was taken before it got dark so it isn't as crisp as the other images in the set.
I love seeing how shadows evolve over time and each time I watch this I see something else interesting!