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It's been a hot minute since I did some proper solar imaging. Today I was out between 12 noon and 13:00 BST capturing videos. I was shooting through thin cloud so conditions weren't the best, but I got this nice prominence on the NE limb.
Taken with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC camera fitted with a 2x Barlow on an EQ5 Pro mount tracking at solar speed. The 3x Barlow stuff isn't worth sharing!
This image is the best 50% of a 2,000 frame video. Stacked in Autostakkert! 3, colour removed and processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2 (I've recorded my own action for this to try to get a bit of continuity)
Skywatcher 130/ 900 newtonian
QHY 5L- II mono
Televue barlow 3x
Filters RGB Meade
Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop
Jupiter 6th Sept 2021(21:40 UT). Good seeing here tonight, but better an hour later. Merged 4 x 3 minute AVI's , (best 4,000 frames each, total 12 minutes / 16,000 frames) - Captured using FireCapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 ,Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow.
A large array of huge sunspots spanning across the sun's photosphere.
This photo was captured during the early afternoon of 9th August, 2024.
I used an 8" F5 newtonian stopped down to F20, a ZWO 533MM, Antlia red filter to reduce turbulent light from the blue channel and Baader solar film for a pure white and accurate image.
8000 frames captured via SharpCap using the seeing activated capture feature in the Pro version. This is incredibly helpful on days where conditions are inconsistent with clouds!
PIPP & Autostakkert 4 were used for stacking / stabilising. Register used for post and final work in Photoshop CC.
June 7, 2025; Tallahassee, Florida; SW Mak 150, ASI432MM, IR cut filter. 250 of the best frames from 1000. I got about 85 fps uncropped and MONO16 image format. The image is a mosaic of six individual images. They were processed with AutoStakkert and image composite editor, with touch-ups in PS.
As a side note, I have used a Wonderbox Lite DC-USB hub tethered to a PC, but not for lunar or planetary imaging. (It works fine for deep sky imaging.) I would typically get less than 15 fps running the camera through the hub. Connecting the camera directly to the PC solved the issue. For some reason, the Wonderbox can't handle the through-put when taking video. I recently obtained a SvBony DC-USB hub. It works fine while in video mode when cabling the camera through it.
The night was mild but humid. Seeing was poor, like looking through a swimming pool on a sunny day. There was also high cirrus clouds left over from the afternoon's thunderstorms. "Lucky Imaging" is a powerful technique. Thanks to the smart folk that developed it!
Phase 90.68% (11d 23h 57m) UTC
Behold, the grand finale from the 2022 planet season: my best Saturn image yet. This was captured 40 days after its 2022 opposition. The rings appear significantly dimmer than they were at opposition because of the Seeliger effect. Also, three of its major moons appear in this image. Saturn has a total of 146 known moons as of the date this was posted.
Captured from 02:26 to 02:57 UTC on 09/24/2022
Phase angle: 3.89°
Apparent magnitude: 0.50
Apparent diameter: 42.60" (with rings)
Distance from Earth: 9.089 AU
Saturn:
Stack of 4,500 frames (best of 123,365)
Exposure 10 ms, Gain 400, Offset 25
Saturn's moons:
Stack of ~14,000 frames (best 90% of 15,557)
Exposure 10 ms, Gain 400, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 4/5 to 5/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (gives an effective focal length of 3404mm at f/22.7)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Capture software: FireCapture
Processing software: PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP
Imaging telescope or lens:Coronado PST 40mm
Imaging camera:Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mount:Vixen Polaris
Software:Autostakkert! Autostackert! , FireCapture 2.4 Firecapture , Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Accessory:Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Date:May 6, 2020
Frames: 200
FPS: 40.00000
Focal length: 800
Resolution: 4144x3218
Data source: Backyard
This lovely sunspot has just rotated into view and is currently nestled in a group of faculae.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount tracking at solar speed. A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The colour was removed before processing then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2 once the image had been processed.
Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200 'Classic' f/6.3 wide-field telescope.
EXIF data is removed via stacking processes in Autostakkert!2 for planetary imaging and in Deep Sky Stacker for deep sky imaging.
Lunar Landing Sites in the Region of the Taurus Mountains and Mare Serenitatis
This photo, which spans a region roughly 980 mi. by 460 mi., shows a portion of the Moon between Julius Caesar Crater (bottom center) and the pair, Hercules and Atlas Craters at upper left. The sweep of the images is from southwest at bottom to northeast at top. The shadowed day-night terminator is in the lower left near Julius Caesar, while the upper portions are fully illuminated. The upper portions are heavily cratered and mountainous, making them highly reflective, whereas the lower portions are smoother and covered by darker lava flows.
The lower right is filled with the dark lava plain Mare Tranquillitatis. Near the center, Mare Tranquillitatis joins with Mare Serenitatis. The strait separating these two lunar “seas” is marked on the left by a point of mountainous terrain known as Promontorium Archerusia, an extension of the Montes Haemus, and on the right by the Taurus Mountains. Between these two areas of high ground can be found the crater Plinius. Take note of the different shades of the mare material between Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Serenitatis, and within each of the maria themselves. These mark areas of lava flows having different ages and compositions.
At the upper right, opposite Hercules and Atlas craters is the similarly-sized Geminus Crater with its terraced walls and central peak. A pair of craters, Cepheus and Franklin, can be seen below the top center.
The arc of the Taurus Mountains marking the northern and eastern border of Mare Serenitatis has several noteworthy features, two of which are historic in nature. At the upper end of the arc, left of center is the large Posidonius Crater. At the center right, near the opposite side of the strait from Promontorium Archerusia is a mountainous area. Looking closely you might see a linear arrangement of three peaks, arranged horizontally in this photo, that look to me like Egyptian pyramids. Immediately above the second of these “pyramids” (actually 8,000’ tall mountains) is a small, four-mile-wide valley. This is the Taurus-Littrow Valley (RED PLUS MARK on the right image). This is where Man last walked on the Moon. The recently-deceased Eugene Cernan piloted the Challenger Landing Module into this rugged niche, this valley, deeper and narrower than the Grand Canyon. I look at this landing site and marvel at the courage and skill required to achieve this. Eugene Cernan was the last man on the Moon, an honor he sincerely wished to pass on to another before he died. This mission was also notable for the amount of scientific information gleaned regarding the age and formation of Mare Serenetatis and the ways in which later impact events a thousand miles away from the valley (the Imbrian event and the Tycho Crater impact) reshaped the landscape of the region. The geologist astronaut Harrison Schmitt was key to the scientific success of this mission.
Midway between Posidonius Crater and the Taurus-Littrow Valley is where the Soviet Union landed the Luna 21 unmanned spacecraft. This occurred in the horseshoe embayment of Mare Serenitatis into the Taurus Mountain arc known as Le Monnier crater (YELLOW PLUS MARK). The Luna 21 mission landed a little more than a month after Apollo 17. The Lunokhod 2 Rover deployed shortly after touchdown, and travelled the area of Le Monnier Crater until May 9, 1973. Its navigation about the lunar surface was aided by photos given to a lead Soviet engineer by an American scientist, photos obtained prior to the Apollo 17 landing.
Image created from stack of 700 individual video frames. Video obtained using infrared light only. Imaged via eyepiece projection through an Orion 20mm Sirius Plossl eyepiece.
ASI ZWO290MM Camera
Optolong IR Pass (685nm) Filter - 1.25"
Explore Scientific ED80 APO Triplet f/6 Refractor, 480mm focal length
Celestron Advanced VX EQ Mount
Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Helios 150 f/8 achromat with re-spaced objective lens,Lunt CaK B12 module and QHY5III 178 (using ROI). 2000 frame SER stacked in Autostakkert,sharpened in ImPPG and finished in PS CS2.
Genova, Italy (30 Sept 2023 01:23 UT)
Planet: diameter 47.6", mag -2.8, altitude ≈ 60°
Telescope: Celestron CPC C8 XLT (203 F/10 SC)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Focal Extender: Explore Scientific 2x (1.25")
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: Artesky
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: ≈0.15 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈4000 mm F/19.7
Image resized: +50%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(640x480 @ 125fps - 120 sec - RAW8 - Gain 189)
Best 25% frames of ≈15000
Alignment/Stacking (Jupiter): AstroSurface U4
Alignment/Stacking (Io): AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface U4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.34
A HDR composite image of the waning crescent Moon with earthshine and HD90428 in Leo from Austin, Texas. Take with a Questar 1350/89 mm f/15 telescope and a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. 2018-11-02 12:22 UT
The best 8 of 110 images of the crescent exposed for 1/25 sec at ISO 100, stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final crop, exposure, and HDR compositing in Photoshop. Earthshine 5 images exposed for 5 sec at ISO 100 stacked in Lynkeos. Sky 6 images exposed for 15 sec at ISO 100 stacked in Lynkeos.
Genova, Italy (17 Aug 2022 01:53 UT)
Planet: diameter 47.2", mag -2.8, altitude ≈ 47°
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: 0.118 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 5070mm F/25
Image resized: +33%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(800x600 @ 60fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 129)
4 videos: 01:50, 01:52, 01:55, 01:59
Best 40% frames of about 7200 for each video
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3
Derotation: WinJUPOS 11.1.4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
I think I’ve managed to get a bit more detail out of some previous data. Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Some lunar features. With the waxing gibbous Moon this close to full (about 93%) it's difficult to image much else so this was a good opportunity to test some of the video capabilities of the ZWO ASI1600 MC Pro camera and also to practice imaging the Moon in such a way that the images may in future have some scientific value (mainly by recording as much information as possible about location, conditions, settings and equipment). But for now here is the first of several processed images. This is an area of the north west of the Moon as seen in the northern hemisphere. The large craters are (from the lower left to upper right) Crater Pythagoras (with Crater Babbage in front), Crater Anaximander (the worn and eroded one), Crater Carpenter, Crater Anaximenes, and part of Crater Philolaus. In the centre of the image is Crater Herschel bordering Mare Frigoris.
Created from 1000 frame video
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI1600 MC Pro camera
x2 Barlow with extension tubes
Relative size of the planets compared to the Sun.
Telescope: Lunt LS60THa DS / B1200
Camera: ZWO ASI174MM
Stacked 3,000 frames out of 5,000.
Processed in Autostakkert > iMPPG > Adobe LR
Captured with an Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian reflector, a Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate and a Canon 80D DSLR.
It looked a lot better through the eyepiece, but for some reason I couldn't capture the same degree of sharpness and detail that I managed with Jupiter the previous month.
Frames processed in AutoStakkert and RegiStax.
14 July 2018.
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Taken with a Solarscope DS 100mm filter / PGR Grasshopper 3. The best 10% of around 1000 images were stacked using Autostakkert 2. A composite of 9 photographs were stitched together using Photomerge in Photoshop CS5 to obtain a full disc. The image was sharpened using Photoshop CS5, then false colour added.
Jupiter 18th July 2022(02:11 UT). Io can just be seen starting to emerge from behind the planet on the right hand edge. A single 10,000 frame AVI was used here to produce a stack of 2,500 frames. Captured using Firecapture V2.5, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 and Registax V6 . Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
A very warm night here, average seeing and a camera temperature of 26 C !
1 min video, best 50% of 883 frames.
Captured with FireCapture
Stacked with Autostakkert!
Wavelets with Registax
Equipment:
Astro-Physics 130mm Refractor
Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Mount
Daystar Chromosphere Quark
ZWO ASI 174MM Camera
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate X2 - Filter #23A (Red)
Camera: ASI120MM
Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - iMerge -
PS6
a short video capture to test a camera 744 frames processed in PIPP, autostakkert 2 and registax 6.
QHY5Lii celestron 200 reflector.
This image of the moon was captured by Tom using his 150P Dobsonian and a QHY IMG132E camera. It's the best 40 frames of a 10s video clip. He stacked the images himself using AutoStakkert 2 and then processed the final image in Registax 6.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC camera on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed. 2,000 frame videos shot, the best 66% of those were stacked in Autostakkert! 3 Beta. Images tweaked in Lightroom, Focus Magic and Fast Stone Image Viewer. Seeing was dreadful and gusts of wind were buffeting the telescope the entire time I was capturing. Also, I was imaging at 2pm when at this time of the year the Sun has dipped quite low, so the odds were against me! My laptop USB ports are knackered so it kept dropping connection to the camera, plus I kept losing power to my mount which was also very frustrating!
This is the first time I've used the colour ASI120 camera on the Sun. I've had great results in previous years with the mono version so I know I can get better than this. I had a play with the 5x Barlow which I can see will work when seeing is better so I'm looking forward to working more with this set up over the coming weeks.
C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 21mm EP with 7.5mm t-extension, F/28, effective focal length 2500mm.
4K MP4 video centred, cropped (2048x1536) sorted for quality and best 50% converted to AVI. Best 10% of that stacked with AutoStakkert. Moons brightened, planet darkened and contrast increased with PhotoShop.
This image is the consolidation of 40 individual images captured in the early morning hours of July 17, 2025.
Telescope: 5" f/8 Astro Physics refractor.
Magnification: TeleVue 4X PowerMate
Effective focal length: 4064mm
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Capture software: SharpCap
Post Processing:
AutoStakkert
WaveSharp 2
Adobe Light Room Classic
Adobe Photoshop
Location:
Elkridge, Maryland USA
Light Pollution: Terrible
Colorized and processed using AutoStakkert, SolarToolbox in PixInsight. Captured with SharpCap using DayStar Quark Chromosphere, Baader ERF, Player One Apollo-M Max and RST135E mount.
The prominent large spot group is AR3615, rotating soon out of the view.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Not the best outcome as the seeing conditions were not ideal when the images were captured. The western limb exhibits a very favourable libration that offered a rare glimpse of the Mare Orientale.
20 single shot RAW images 1/400s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Olympus E410 at prime focus.
Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6.
Final processing with G.I.M.P & Adobe Lightroom..
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
Waxing Gibbous Moon stacked from a 2 minute video in Autostakkert!3 and post-processed in Lightroom.
Imaging telescope: Celestron Nexstar 8SE SCT
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Imaging camera: Astrolumina ALccd5L-IIc
Software: FireCapture, Autostakkert 2, Fitswork, Photoshop CS3
Date: March, 7 / 8, 2016
Frames: 1600 for each single image
FPS: 21
Gain: 145
Focal length: 4210mm
Seeing: 5/5
Transparency: 5 / 10
The Moon and Mars in a beautiful conjunction on 2020-08-09 06:50 UT. A HDR composite taken with the WO Redcat 51 f/4.5 telescope with Sony a7iii at prime focus from my home in Austin, Texas.
Moon best 5 of 70 images exposed 1/100 sec at ISO 100, 1.5x drizzle stacked in AutoStakkert! 3. Mars 5 images exposed 1/160 sec at ISO 100, 1.5x drizzle stacked. Deconvolution in Lynkeos. Tree single exposure 5 sec at ISO 100. HDR composite in Photoshop.
This image of the Moon was captured on September 30, 2018, at 11:47 UT, with a C9.25 Edge HD telescope and ASI183mm camera, using a green filter. The original video file was stacked in Autostakkert (version AS!3, stack of 2000 frames), and this reprocessed version was edited in PixInsight.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount which is on a permanent pier.
ISO-800 1/1600 sec. 250 images taken and the best 75% were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
First time I saw Mars in real life. :)
I immediately tried to capture it. (y)
One of the Polar Ice Caps is also a little bit visible.
Gear:
- Sky-watcher Skymax 102
- Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro
- Celestron 2x Barlow
- ASI 120MC-S
Software used:
- Firecapture
- PIPP
- Autostakkert!3
- Registax 6
From a total of 4500 frames, I used 560 to stack. :)
Luna del 10-08-2016 a colores
Apilado 35% de 479 frames de video MLV 1728 x 1156 recortados más 477 darks.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/500s - Foco primario.
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe Lightroom
A capture of Jupiter on April 16, 2017. The capture was executed at 02:35:15 AMPDT with conclusion of video capture at 02:36:45. A resulting stack of the best 75% of 4,400 frames from the video was compiled in the beta version of Autostakkert!3 for a final averaged output image.
Finishing touches completed in Registax6 and Adobe Photoshop, with final export to Lightroom. This was the second best of nine videos captured. Out of the nine, two were usable, the remaining seven were discarded.
A 10-inch Meade LX200 telescope was used in addition to a Nikon D5500 DSLR and a 5x barlow for this capture.
Mare Imbrium is an impact basin that was flooded with lava after an asteroid struck the moon nearly 4 billion years ago. It is considered to be one of the largest impact craters in our solar system.
Surrounding the basin are several well known craters including Plato (near the top), Archimedes (mid-right side), and Eratosthenes (bottom center). Also shown on the right edge near Archimedes is the Hadley Rille, the landing location of the Apollo 15 moon mission.
This image was captured on July 13, 2016 using a Celestron 9.25” EdgeHD telescope and ZWO ASI178MM-Cool camera. Image processing was done with Autostakkert!, PixInsight, and Photoshop CC2015.
This photo is best viewed at full size (1566 x 2048 pixels) or against a dark background (press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box and/or click on the image to get full zoom).
Here is a link to the full-sized image:
Here is a link to an image of the crater Copernicus that was taken on this same night (Copernicus lies just to the south of Mare Imbrium):
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Skywatcher 72ED apo,Lunt CaK B1200 module and QHY5III 178M was used to record 1000+ SER file for full disk and 4000+ SER for close up image (1.6x Magnimax added to camera). Stacked in Autostakkert 3,processed in Astrosurface and false coloured in PS CS2.
Taken from Oxfordshire on 1st May 2023 with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow.
The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar rate. It was still twilight when I started imaging and I was also dealing with varying amounts of thin cloud. The Moon was 85% Waxing Gibbous.
A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 25% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer, plus a bit of sharpening in Focus Magic.
English below, followed by Portuguese.
This is my first processed image of Jupiter in the season.
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is clearly exhibited, disturbing, as usual, the Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) flow. However, the GRS seems to be disturbed as well by the surrounding turbulence, given that its periphery shows two tail-like features, about 110 degrees apart, resembling short spiral arms of a galaxy, suggesting that the anticyclone is probably losing matter to its neighboring region on the gas giant's upper atmosphere.
The SEB seems to be split in two, with a narrow band of seemingly laminar flow dominating its lowest latitudes.
At medium austral latitudes, three other vortices are spotted - the Ova BA being one of them - and a dark spot hovering on the top of the Southern Equatorial Zone seems to reveal some cyclogenesis taking place.
The Northern Equatorial seems narrower and more turbulent than last year.
Other than that, nothing to be worth mentioning.
Telescope: Meade LX90-ACF 12
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Accessory: Televue Powermate 2" 2x
Softwares: AutoStakkert!, WinJupos, Registax and Photoshop
Português:
Esta é minha primeira imagem processada de Júpiter nesta temporada. A Grande Mancha Vermelha (GMV) é facilmente notada, perturbando, como lhe é típico, o escoamento ao longo do Cinturão Equatorial Sul. Entretanto, a própria GMV também parece ser perturbada pela turbulência que lhe cerca, dado que apresenta duas estruturas semelhantes a caudas, separadas em aproximadamente 110 graus, lembrando curtos e incipientes braços espirais de uma galáxia, sugerindo que o anticiclone está provavelmente perdendo matéria para a região vicinal na alta atmosfera joviana.
O Cinturão Equatorial Sul parece se dividir em dois, com uma banda estreita de fluxo aparentemente laminar, dominando as latitudes mais baixas.
Nas médias latitudes austrais, três vórtices podem ser vistos - com a Oval BA sendo um deles - e uma mancha escura sobre a Zona Temperada Sul parece revelar a ocorrência de ciclogênese.
O Cinturão Equatorial Norte parece mais estreito e turbulento que no ano anterior.
"Imbrium Ground Surges and Sculpture"
July 21, 2018
Since my teens I have been fascinated by the huge lunar impact basin known as Mare Imbrium. This is an easy naked-eye feature of the Moon. There was one afternoon when my reading of descriptions of lunar craters and meteor impacts built up to the realization that Mare Imbrium marked a truly titanic impact event, one that affected the entire side of the moon that we see.
This image captures in one wide field many far-flung (literally) changes in the lunar surface directly attributable to the enormous impact event that gouged the basin that became what we now know as Mare Imbrium.
Mare Imbrium is the huge circular lava plain located here in the upper left. It is surrounded by a ring of mountains, here represented by the Montes Appenninus. These mountains were raised by the impact event, as huge blocks of the Moon's crust were dislodged and lifted, like ripples in a pond. This ring of mountains is the first thing that slammed home for me the fact that Mare Imbrium marked a REALLY GINORMOUS impact basin.
Then I started looking outside the ring. Look at the upper right of this photo. There is another large lava plain - Mare Serenitatis. Formed in similar fashion to Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis is older. We can see this because the Montes Appenninus adjoin and partly overlay the outer circular margin of Mare Serenitatis. Look at the lower boundary of Mare Serenitatis. The lava plains of it's basin abut a range of mountains, the Montes Haemus. The ridges in this region were originally a structure like the Montes Appenninus, but raised by the Serenitatis impact event. But look closer. These mountains are marked by radial gouges, centered on Mare Imbrium, and seem to me of having been scoured and partially buried by material that flowed out from Mare Imbrium. These radial gouges in the Moon are collectively known as "Imbrium sculpture".
Now look at the center of the photo. There is a small lava plain here called Sinus Medii. Using this as a reference, we can explore other regions scarred by the Imbrium event.
Directly south (down) from Sinus Medii there is a large circular crater with a smooth floor. It is the top crater in a prominent stack of three progressively smaller craters. The large crater is Ptolemaeus. The area surrounding Ptolemaeus is light colored and heavily cratered. It is pretty far from Mare Imbrium, but the terrain is gouged by more radial cuts, again centered on Mare Imbrium. Mountain-sized blocks were thrown outward from the Imbrium impact - they bounded across the surface of the Moon and cut through ridgelines and crater ramparts, scoring the Moon's face as they passed. How many can you find?
Looking North (upward) from Sinus Medii there is a funnel- shaped of region of hills, largely dark in color, that narrows to the north where it connects with the Montes Appenninus. There are some gouges and signs of scouring in this area, but it is the hills themselves that draw my interest. Nearest to Montes Appenninus these seem to be broken ridges of bedrock, roughly parallel to the arc of the Montes Appenninus with piles of rubble in between, material that flowed outward from the Imprium impact (ground surges). Farther away from the Montes Appenninus, the terrain looks more like piles of ejecta strewn in radial patterns that settled here to build hills and to deeply bury whatever features that existed here before the Imbrian event.
Lastly, look at the lower left side of the image. This area is dark, crossed by the lunar day-night terminator. Look into the darkness, west of Ptolemaeus, and you will see an area of hills very similar to those above Sinus Medii, described in the paragraph above. You may also see a medium sized circular crater with two smaller adjoining craters at the 6 o'clock and the 5 o'clock positions. the larger crater is called Fra Mauro. In the 1960's scientists suspected this was a region where material ejected from Mare Imbrium would be covering the surface. Apollo 13 was designated to land here and collect samples, but the accident en route to the Moon forced abandonment of this mission. Apollo 14 was retasked to land in this area, and did so successfully. Samples were confirmed to have been of Imbrian origin. The landing site was in the hilly terrain north of Fra Mauro crater, 500 km south of the edge of Mare Imbrium.
Video captured with SharpCap 3.1. Best 600 of 2000 frames from an .avi stacked with Autostakkert!3, wavelets processed in Registax 6, deconvolution in Fitswork 4, and finished with Photoshop CC 2018.
ZWO ASI290MM camera, Explore Scientific ED 80 APO f/6 refractor, Explore Scientific 3x focal extender, Optolong IR Pass filter (685nm), Celestron Advanced VX mount.