Copernicus, Sinus Iridum and more Moon Images
On the 20th and 22nd March, I had two very busy mornings – capturing Jupiter (20th and 22nd), the ISS and the Moon all in the space of 2 hours on each of the days. I have finally finished processing the lunar images and am happy to be able to post these.
I used the 2x barlow to capture the ISS and used the Moon to test focus, so I captured a range of targets while waiting for the ISS to appear. Included here are Copernicus, Sinus Iridum, Bullialdus, Aristarchus, Gassendi and Schickard.
The first image is of Copernicus using the 5x powermate. Captured at 60fps for 1 minute. The best 300 frames were stacked for this result.
Copernicus with the 5x powermate
The rest of the images are captured with the 2x barlow, again at 60fps. Next is Sinus Iridum.
Sinus Iridum
To see the remaining images and some processing notes, please read on.
The seeing was only average for these images, so they’re softer than I’d like them to be. They were processed in Registax 5 using 11-15 alignment points in each image. Mild LR deconvolution was applied using AstraImage, and Photoshop was used for noise reduction, levels adjustment and high-pass filter for mild sharpening.
Please check the captions for the names of the following craters.
Aristarchus Crater
Schickard
Gassendi
Copernicus with the 2x barlow
Bullialdus
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of 
Mike, You have some great images of the Moon. You’re doing a great job. Also I love your images of Jupiter too. A friend sent a tweet about your first images of Jupiter. Jupiter is my favorite. planet. I help other members of Slooh to keep up with Jupiter & the 4 Galilean moon.
Thank You for sharing your Images.
Ricky Ford
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