Astroblog: Moon 9 January 2014 (OR what you do while waiting for Aurora)

Thursday, January 09, 2014

Moon 9 January 2014 (OR what you do while waiting for Aurora)


The Moon imaged on 9 January with a 1/60th second exposure at ISO 1600 taken with a Pentax K10D through my 4" reflector using a a T-ring adaptor. Click to embiggen for full effect	The Moon imaged on 6 January with a 1/60th second exposure at ISO 1600 taken with a Pentax K10D through my 4" reflector using a a T-ring adaptor. Click to embiggen for full effect (the compare with the image from the 4th).	The Crescent Moon imaged on 4 January with a 1/60th second exposure at ISO 1600 taken with a Pentax K10D through my 4" reflector using a a T-ring adaptor. Click to embiggen.

More testing with the Pentax in through telescope mode while waiting for aurora. I think I'm getting a better handle on the focus. Now if I can only get Registax to actually stack the images!

Labels: astrophotography, Moon

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:56 pm

Comments:

Hey Ian, imagej will register on a selected feature, say near the terminator. Then do z project max, or average. Rdgs cometal

# posted by

CometAl : 9:23 am

G'Day Al

Unfortunately the moon rotates slightly in consecutive images (why? it's an equatorial mount! But unguided, so I have to frizt about to get the Moon back in the viewfinder)so one side of the Moon is perfectly aligned in ImageJ, and the other not :-(

# posted by

Ian Musgrave : 9:46 am

Don't track just let it drift cross fov be able to line up then. rgd Al

# posted by

CometAl : 10:56 am