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De Sky Safari: Al frente se observa el cráter Platón, y a la izquierda el cráter Anaxágoras. Se estima que tienen 101 y 52 km de diámetro y que su origen es de impacto.
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD @ 4700 mm
Focal ratio: f20
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
FPS (avg.)=134
Shutter=7.4ms
Gain=191 (70%)
Resolution: 0.127 arcsec/pixel
Stack: 25% best of 24544 frames (6052 frames)
Barlow: Explore Scientific 1.25" 2x Focal Extender
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: ZWO ADC
Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser
Capturing software: FireCapture 2.7
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Processing: Autostakkert! (25%), RegiStax, PixInsight
Date: 18-jan-2022
Local Time: 11:49 pm
Universal Time (UT): 4:45 am
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
A fair amount of disturbance apparent in the Northern Equatorial Belt, while the Southern belt appears very smooth and uniform.
Best 2000 of 4000 frames processed with Autostakkert.
Wavelet filtering with Registax 6.
Camera - ASI034MC
Telescope -NexStar 6SE
Shorty 2X Barlow.
This is a cropped 3 panel mosaic of a large active region on the surface of our Sun.
Each panel (1920x1200) consisted of a stack of 70% of the best 1000 frames from AVIs shot at 40fps.
The panel stacks were generated using Autostakkert. The panels were stitched using Microsoft's ICE. IMPPG was used for deconvolution, unsharp masking and tone curve adjustment. Photoshop CC was used for false colouring, sharpening and HDR toning. I decided to use HDR toning to bring out the fine details of the plage and surrounding areas.
The following equipment was used to capture the image data.
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar refracting telescope.
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Hydrogen Alpha eyepiece.
FLIR (formerly Point Grey) Blackfly mono CMOS (IMX249 sensor).
Image processed using WinJUPOS on RGB frames. This is my first image processed with WinJUPOS. It was well worth the extra step in my workflow.
Io's shadow and the Great Red Spot are clearly visible on the Gas Giant. Ganymede is seen to the upper right.
After viewing other recent images of Jupiter I realize that I captured an outbreak in the North Temperate Belt. It is the small white oval just above the ruddy colored North Equatorial Belt and is in line with the GRS at the time this image was taken. An outbreak is a giant thunderstorm (in simple terms) that can last for months.
This image was taken using a monochrome camera and Astronomik RGB filters.
Date: January 23, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 3000 frames per filter, lucky imaging (FireCapture)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Camera: ZWO ASI462MM
Filters: Astronomik R, G and B
Tele Vue 2x Powermate
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 2.0, WinJUPOS 12.3.12, Photoshop CC
Finally, an evening with at least average seeing conditions. Best 45% of 2000 frames.
Celestron CPC800 XLT
ASI120MC-S camera
Shorty 2X Barlow
(FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, Photoshop CC 2015)
Another short session produced this image of AR 2824 using my 80mm Lunt modified refractor double stacked with Solarmax II 60 Richview etalon and QHY5III 178M + 2x Barlow. SER stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in PS CS2.
The June full (Strawberry) Moon from Austin, Texas. Fair transparency and seeing. Questar 1350/89 mm f/15 telescope with Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed for 1/60 sec at ISO 100. Best 10 of 100 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure adjustments in Photoshop.
Bresser 90mm f/10 refractor,Lunt CaK B1200 module and QHY5III 178. SER stacked in Autostakkert 3,processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.
clavius du 24/05/18. Newton 400 + barlow televue powermate 2.5x couplé à caméra Zwo asi224mc.
empilement autostakkert3 et finitions photoshop.
Saturn 21 05 2013
Celestron 8
Barlow XCel 2x
SPC900 @ 5 fps
50% of 1800 frames
Aligned and stacked (drizzle 3x) with Autostakkert! 2
RGB Alignment and Wavelets in Registax 6
Image cropped
Seeing 4-5 / 10
Celestron Edge HD 925 with 3x Barlow
Captured with a FLIR Point Grey Flea3 color camera at 48 fps
Each video had the best 132 of 600 frames stacked in AutoStakkert. After a few tweaks in PixInsight, stacked images were derotated and combined in WinJUPOS. Final composition edited in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Tecnosky APO Triplet 130/910 mm
Camera di acquisizione: QHY5III178C
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Software: SharpCap 3.0, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.6.8, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Pose: 150 FPS: 33 Seeing: 4
Trasparenza: 7
Balcone di casa, Formigine, Modena, Italy
Seeing buono ma trasparenza non perfetta.
Test camera CMOS QHY 178C
Taken with an 8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount
Top image is a composite of 2 single shots, one exposed to bring out the Galilean Moons, the other to try and maintain Jupiter's cloud detail. They were merged in Photoshop using a layer mask
Middle image was captured using Backyard EOS at 5x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 55% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Bottom image was captured using Backyard EOS at 10x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 30% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Jupiter and Europa. Taken using a QHY IMG132E, attached to a Altair Wave 115 ED Triplet Refractor with a Tele Vue 2 x Powermate to increase magnification. It is the result of 500 images, stacked using AutoStakkert 2 and processed using RegiStax 6.
Just a sounding title :)
Animated GIF, covering one hour of secret life of the Sun between 09:10 and 10:06 MSK in 12 frames. East is Up, North is to the Left.
See Original Size for the action.
Acqusition time: 29.08.2016 09:10-10:06 MSK
TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST via 2x Barlow lens.
960x960 pixels videos werestacked in AS!2 using 150 best frames of 800 total. Each frame was deconvolved in AstraImage 3 PRO (Cauchy 0,4-11) and manually aligned in PS.
Taken just over 9 hours past the exact time of Full Moon, during the 2nd Full Moon of January 2018 making this a Blue Moon.
Taken with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope, focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount.
1500 frame video shot with Backyard EOS, best 75% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 (Beta) then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
I further edited my previous Mars image and was able to bring out a small patch of clouds over Elysium Mons (top right!) and some additional surface detail. Stack of 600+ frames in AutoStakkert from iPhone 6 video through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Edited in Registax, Nebulosity and Snapseed.
I hadn't tried using the 16-bit mode on the ZWO ASI120MM to shoot the Moon before, so I figured I'd see what I could get. This is a few hours past when the X and V are prominent, but there is a nice crater rim poking up into sunlight at the south edge of the terminator.
This is a compilation of 55 tiles, which are stacks of the best 81 out of 300 frame SER files. Shot with a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10 and a green 58 filter on the ZWO camera. Stacks were processsed in AutoStakkert, then trimmed, then composited in Image Composite Editor. There was a bit of sharpening of the 7500 by 10000 pixel result in PixInsight and some final touches in Photoshop.
Lunation: 7.90 days
Illumination: 59.2%
Distance: 394000 km
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
25 single shot frames stacked.
1/640s ISO 160 for each frame.
Processed using Autostakkert! then wavelets with Registax 6.
Final adjustments to levels using Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Lunar north is uppermost.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
113 degrees F today in Phoenix...Sky-Watcher Esprit 80mm, QHY174, Daystar Quark solar filter with a IR cut filter as well. Shot 500 frames, best 15% stacked in Autostakkert, then IMPPG, then NAFA, then Photoshop, then Lightroom.
40 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/320s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking; Registax for wavelets and post-processing in Photoshop. Combined after stacking with uncropped single DSLR shot from same series. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
تصويري لكوكب #زحل
My Astrophotography of #Saturn
🔭 Celestron CPC 800
ZWO ASI290MC
Filter: Baader UV/IR-Cut L-filter
التكديس Stacked
Autostakkert
Registax
Photoshop
Close up lunar surface
Taken with an old C8 and ASI120mc planetary camera with a 3x Barlow
Capture software: sharpcap 2
Stacking software : autostakkert!2
Wavelets sharpening in registax6
40sec AVI @~10fps
During these nights, the giant of our solar system shines brightly between the constellation of Pisces, culminating in an opposition (closest point to our planet) on the night of the 26th. i share the final image and the animation of the movement of the giant planet and two of its moons Io and Europa.
Gear: Nexstar 8SE and camera Neptune-C II Player One astronomy
best 400 frames of 3000 Process: PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax V6 and Photoshop CC 2022 with topaz sharpen
Pianeta: Giove.
Data: 24 aprile 2017.
Diametro: 43.81"
Magnitudine: -2.44
CMI=140.0° CMII=108.8° CMIII=232.5°
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Ora (locale): 23:35.
Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 4/5.
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.
Barlow: 2.5x GSO.
Lunghezza focale: 4950mm
Risoluzione: 0.16"
Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.
Numero di frames acquisiti: 2847.
Numero di frames elaborati: 50% (1423).
FPS: 31.
Durata del filmato: 90 s.
ROI: 640x480
Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 3.0.14, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC 2015.
Planetary alignment 2022 in hires.
In this period, in the early hours of the morning, it is possible to observe this spectacular astronomical phenomenon, the planets appear in the sky arranged exactly in order of distance from the Sun, a bit like in the classic book photos illustrating the solar system. Unfortunately, I have not been able to capture the elusive Mercury, but what you see are exactly as they appear now: Venus, imaged in the infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths to highlight the cloudy structures consisting mainly of sulfuric acid, Mars, still very far away (it will be in opposition in December) and with an apparent size of about 7.7 ", very small but already showing interesting details, it is possible to notice the polar cap and the region of Syrtis Major, Jupiter with its characteristic Big Red Spot and its dynamic atmosphere and Saturn, which this year shows a greater portion of the south pole, characterized by an azure / blue coloration and its wonderful system of rings and bands. A real spectacle, which however costs the "small" sacrifice of setting the alarm very early in the morning.
Celestron C11 f10
Qhy178m
Astronomik RGB Filters
Astronomik irblock + W47 filter
Astronomik irpass 807nm filter
Azeq6
Software:
Sharpcap
Autostakkert 3
Iris
Winjupos
Photoshop
Here in high resolution :
Crater Messala is the large and well-worn crater just right and below center frame.
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Imaged through a 4x barlow
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Extender: Televue 4x
Effective focal length : 11200 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI
Transparency was fair at best, but seeing was good for this image of the moon. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed on on 2019-05-16 04:29. Best 12 of 147 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
Cloudy sky. Missed the occultation with Nu Pcs.
4 panel mosaic
Fuji X-T20
SW120ED (2x barlow to F=1800mm)
400+ frame stacked from video
Autostakkert
Microsoft ICE
PixInsight
Genova, Italy (26 Aug 2022 01:04 UT)
Planet: diameter 48.2", mag -2.8, altitude ≈ 46°
Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)
Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: 0.121 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 4940mm F/24.3
Image resized: +33%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(800x600 @ 40fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 129)
Best 40% frames of about 4831
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
Mare Nectaris region of the moon photographed in August 2015. You can see the small inset picture for the area of the moon that contains this “sea”.
The Sea of Nectar (Mare Nectaris) is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon’s surface) located near the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillatis) and the Sea of Fecundity (Mare Fecunditatis).
Several large craters are situated at the borders of Mare Nectaris. The largest one is lava-filled Fracastorius (124 km), which fuses with southern coast of the Sea. A prominent trio of 100-km craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina is located near northwestern coast.
Photo details – video imaging captured using a Canon 6D and Celestron 6″ telescope. Camera was mounted at prime focus and video captures (at 5x) using Backyard EOS v3 software. 1,500 frames captures, best 400 frames used to produce the final image. Final image combined using Autostakkert.
Saturn, the 6th planet, 23 days after its 2023 opposition. The 5 innermost major moons of the Saturnian system appear in this image. Saturn had 146 known moons when this was captured, but that number increased to 274 in March 2025.
The Seeliger effect (also known as opposition surge) makes the rings appear dimmer than they were at opposition. Once I finish all of the images from this season, I'll post a comparison image to demonstrate this more clearly.
I'm finishing the last of my planetary images from 2023. These will be some of the final images from the C6 because I upgraded to the C9.25 in 2024. Much more to come.
Captured on 2023/09/19 from 03:55 to 04:00 UTC (Saturn) and 04:50 to 04:53 UTC (Saturn's moons)
Phase angle: 2.39°
Apparent magnitude: 0.54
Apparent diameter: 43.80" (with rings)
Distance from Earth: 8.839 AU
Saturn:
Stack of 3,000 frames (best of 24,969)
Exposure 12 ms, Gain 400, Offset 25
Saturn's moons:
Stack of 7,500 frames (best of 10,197)
Exposure 15 ms, Gain 400, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 3/5 or 4/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Filter: ZWO UV/IR-Cut
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Capture software: FireCapture
Processing software: AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP
The craters near the terminator are Pythagoras, Babbage, J, Herschel and Anaximander.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera.
Best 75% of 1,000 frames stacked with Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on the afternoon of 3rd April 2023. Because it was mid-afternoon when I started imaging, conditions were not great, but there was some nice activity visible on the Sun, and sunspot group AR13270 was looking lovely.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Baader Continuum filter, and shot through a Celestron 3x Barlow. A 1,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. I sharpened the image using Focus magic, then processed it in Lightroom. I adjusted the colour to get rid of the green cast from the continuum filter.
Aristoteles and Eudoxus: First Photo with the Celestron 8 EdgeHD.
I managed to see the moon against a bright blue sky this afternoon, and this is my first real photo with the new telescope. The photo isn't very good, but it promises better things to come.
These two craters form a distinctive pair, and catch the lunar morning light together. They are well-known friends to those of us who enjoy telescopic views of the Moon.
Aristoteles Crater is the upper member of the pair, and Eudoxus the lower. I will surely visit them under better observing conditions, and will have more to say of them at that time. For now, enjoy the view, and know that I am a happy boy.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor using a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 15 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Seeing average but lots of light wispy cloud interfering as usual :-) Yellowish colour rendered by just altering the blue channel in Canon's DPP software.
Here is another capture of the Sun taken on the morning of the 15th of February. This is the best 20% of frames from a 5 minute RAW video, processed in Autostakkert. You are able to see some of the granulation in this one.
Equipment Used:
Seestar S50
Solar Filter
Exposure:
5 min Raw Video
SkyWatcher Star Adventurer háromláb
SkyWatcher AZGTi mechanika
SkyWatcher 102/1300 Makszutov-Cassegrain távcső
2x Barlow
Canon EOS 250D
Pipp, Autostakkert, Ps
104_8056-9 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.
APM 107/700, EOS 60Da on Ioptron CEM25 mount. No polar alignment was necessary, just approximate pointing to North. A subset of %50 from 500 shots at 1/250s @ISO 250.
Stacked and processed with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4, Topaz Sharpen AI, Registax 6.1, PixInsight and Photoshop CC
Sony A7RIV + 200-600mm +1.4 TC crop mode, 15% stack 150 images in Autostakkert ,Sharpened in Photoshop Astro Image Filter, Topaz Sharpen
“Aristarchus Rising”
In my early years of exploring the night sky with binoculars, I was frequently amazed by a brilliant feature on the Moon, to the left of Mare Imbrium. I wondered, “What could be so bright?”. After a little reading, and consultation with a local wizard (Herbert Z. Lund, MD, avid amateur astronomer, and mentor/friend to both my wife and I), I learned that the bright spot was the crater Aristarchus. I learned that it is among the very brightest features on the Moon, due to the unusual reflectivity of the material within and around the crater. It sits on the edge of a plateau with a history of intense volcanic activity, including immense channels through which lava rivers once flowed, contributing to the vast lava plains (maria) that surround the plateau. I learned that Neil Armstrong reported an unusual brightness, with some fluorescence, from the area of Aristarchus during the Apollo 11 Mission. Could the fires of Aristarchus still be active? I was hooked. Aristarchus became a favorite observing target for me.
Last Thursday night, at the Pop-Up Telescopes event, I noticed Aristarchus being illuminated by the first rays of sunlight, a bright point on the day-night terminator line of the Moon. As I seldom capture this Moon phase photographically, I decided to do so after I returned home. Below is the photo I captured.
The photo shows a region of the Moon where the huge lava plains of Mare Imbrium merge with the gargantuan lava plain of Oceanus Procellarum, below the Jura Mountain range that defines the western and northwestern rim of Mare Imbrium. Aristarchus occupies the bottom center in this photo, next to the line dividing bright daylight from the deep night darkness. Its raised rampart and interior western crater walls are illuminated, but its depths are still deeply shadowed. Some of the edge of the surrounding plateau can be seen, as can a piece of the rim of adjacent Hesiodus crater, which otherwise is cloaked by night. The area of the lower right portion of the photo shows streaks of lighter-toned material that generally radiate away from Aristarchus crater. These are the ray system that surrounds Aristarchus, composed of material that was blasted upward and outward when an asteroid gouged the crater into the Moon. Ray features, over eons of time, are darkened by constant bombardment by solar radiation and they become indistinguishable from the older lunar surface materials. Their presence declares that Aristarchus is one of the young lunar craters. It can’t be more than half a billion years old! Alas, my photo reveals no sign that the fires are still burning.
To the right and upward from Aristarchus there is a horseshoe shaped feature, surrounded by a few mountains. The horseshoe is Prinz crater; long ago flood basalt surges overtopped the southern rim of Prinz crater and filled its interior. The mountains surrounding Prinz crater are called the Montes Harbinger, the “Harbinger Mountains”, for they become visible a day before dawn comes to Aristarchus. Inspection of the valleys between the mountains and the area between the mountains and Aristarchus shows several squiggly features, like streambeds, flowing away from the mountains. These are ancient lava channels; each originates in a dormant volcanic vent and marks a path the lava flows took to the plains below. They are collectively named Rimae Prinz. The similar features originating on the edge of the Aristarchus Plateau are called Rimae Aristarchus.
Above and left of the Harbinger Mountains is a medium-sized crater, with a deeply shadowed interior. This is Krieger crater. On its bottom-side rim is another small crater, which shows due to its brightly-lit western rim. This is Van Biesbroeck crater. Take a moment to appreciate the long triangular shadows cast by the craters and mountains in this area. To the left of Krieger crater are two tiny craters, with the rather cute names, first names really, Rocco (upper) and Ruth (lower). Rocco is 4.37 km in diameter, and Ruth only 3.0 km. I discovered during preparation of this writeup that the middle region of this photo is dotted with tiny craters with first names. Names like Gaston, Linda, Boris, Samir, Louise, Isabel, Walter, and Ivan. These are not just informal names: they are official designations assigned by the International Astronomical Union. And they are truly tiny. The smallest I have identified in this photo is Samir, at 1.87 km. I am puzzled as to the Why? behind giving these features official names. It seems they were given names during the preparation for NASA of the highly-detailed Apollo-imagery related maps known as the Topophotomap series. The legends at the bottom of the maps say the names were intended as “informal” names, to be used only in describing that particular map. However, in 1976, most of them were formally adopted into the official IAU Nomenclature. So why are they named? Because that they happened to fall in one of the very few portions of the Moon covered by a Topophotomap. I hope the names are significant for someone, maybe honoring loved ones, friends, or pets. They are examples of fun things one finds when rummaging through science, like when I found out that there is a dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler.
Back to the image. Near the right middle edge of the photo is another medium-sized crater with a partially shaded interior and surrounded by what appears to be a rubble field. This is Delisle crater. To its left is a lamb chop shaped mountain called Mons Delisle, and to its upper right is what seems to be a tiny chain of craters (catena) called Rupes Boris. The word “rupes” means cliff or escarpment, and yes, it’s named after the previously mentioned Boris crater. The area around Rupes Boris is home to the previously mentioned Boris, Linda and Gaston craters. If you squint, you might detect one or two. Below Delisle crater is a smaller bowl-shaped crater called Diophantus. Between Delisle and Diophantus you can see a light-shaded patch. At the center is a tiny crater. This is Samir. Its bottom is only 1 km across, so maybe this is my break into the club of astrophotographers that can claim to have resolved 1 km. If not, give me a break and let me enjoy my moment. Resolving a one km feature (or even a 1.87 km feature) from a distance of 380,000 km is a pretty cool feat.
Now for the final stretch on this essay. In the upper left corner of the photo the terrain becomes very broken and mountainous. These are the Jura Mountains of the Mare Imbrium rim. Amidst these mountains is the prominent crater Mairan. At the lower end of these mountains are two larger mounds. These are the lunar volcanoes Gruithuisen Gamma (left) and Gruithuisen Delta (right). Gruithuisen Gamma even has an obvious summit crater. They are unusual among lunar volcanoes for their heights (1,500 and 1,800 meters, respectively). This is the first time I can recall capturing them in a close-up photo. Lastly, at the upper center of the photo there is a projection of mountains into the plains of Mare Imbrium. This is Promontorium Heraclides, marking the southern end of the popular lunar feature, Sinus Iridum.
Best 12% of 19,399 video frames processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Wavelets processing performed with Registax 6. Post-processing with Photoshop CC 2024.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Seeing: below average, 2/5