Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Images from International Observer the Moon Night (16 October, 2021)
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| International Space Station zooms between Venus (obvious brightest sky object) and the Scorpion and Saturn (out of frame to right). Canon Ixus, ISO 3200, 10 x 1 second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. | Moon taken through my 8" Newtonian, 25 mm Plossl, lens, 2 x Barlow. Video taken with my Xperia mobile phone, converted to AVI with PIPP than stacked with Registax 6. |
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| Moon featuring Copernicus crater taken through my 8" Newtonian, 12.5 mm Plossl, lens, 2 x Barlow. Video taken with my Xperia mobile phone, converted to AVI with PIPP than stacked with Registax 6. | Moon featuring Sinus iridium taken through my 8" Newtonian, 12.5 mm Plossl, lens, 2 x Barlow. Video taken with my Xperia mobile phone, converted to AVI with PIPP than stacked with Registax 6. |
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| Copernicus crater taken through my 8" Newtonian, 2 x Barlow, modified ToUcam webcam and Vega. AVI stacked in Registax 6 then brightness and contrast adjusted in GIMP. large central black blob is guff on the CCD chip. | Sinus iridium taken through my 8" Newtonian, 2 x Barlow, modified ToUcam webcam and Vega. AVI stacked in Registax 6 then brightness and contrast adjusted in GIMP. large central black blob is guff on the CCD chip. |
International Observe the Moon Night was on Saturday October 16. The early cloud cleared up in time to see the ISS zoom between Venus, Jupiter and Saturn and the Moon. Despite a lot of atmospheric turbulence I got some decent shots of the Moon (had to discard lots of frames). Didn't bother with Jupiter or Saturn due to the atmospheric shenanigans.
Web cam shots of Sinus Irium are neat and all, but misses out on a lot of interesting surrounding territory. The problem with higher magnification is it also magnifies the atmospheric turbulence, so even stacking with wavelets doesn't help as much as I would like.
software used (Vega seems to have vanished from the web)
Labels: international Observe the Moon Night, ISS, Moon, telescope, unaided eye, Venus
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