Sunrise on Mare Crisium

crazy weather lately huh? down here in springfield MO weve been getting everything that you all have.. great shot!

Bernoulli wrote in post #8011526
Thanks! I know there is "gun porn" because I'm Bernoulli in the GlockTalk forum and there are several excellent photographers over there. I guess there must also be "airplane porn" as well.

Indeed there is...

I'm a prime purveyor!

Here's a regional view.

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Here's the boundary between the Sea of Serenity (above) and Sea of Tranquility (below). You can see a clear boundary where old lava was over-run by newer lava. Apollo 17 landed in that clump of mountains with the dark floor, just upper-right of center.

This is 1800 mm through a 4" refractor, and that's about all the power I dare do. I made a composite of the entire moon from tonight at this resolution, and it's 70M!

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Mountains and shadows.

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Bernoulli those a re fantastic upclose shots !! I really like this type shots !

Thanks Ron. I just got this 4" refractor and I've never gotten moon shots so good. It beats my 6" Mak and my 8" SC by miles, mainly due to the lack of scattered light.

Bernoulli wrote in post #8032265
Thanks Ron. I just got this 4" refractor and I've never gotten moon shots so good. It beats my 6" Mak and my 8" SC by miles, mainly due to the lack of scattered light.

But I can't take credit for Baz's great shots!

OH SORRY !! . I was thinking Baz .

So what scope didi you get

I consider it a compliment!

I got an Orion 100 ED. 4" diameter, 900 mm. No discernible color on the moon. Very very sharp contrasty images but, with only 4 inches of aperture, it gets a bit dim at high magnification.

I have a question over in the "how to" section if anyone would care to clear up the mysteries of the Barlow lens for me. It's at:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=702581

Copernicus.

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Beaut......

celestial porn indeed, very nice

i think i need to look into this some more, i love taking pictures of the moon and the sky, but have never had anything that good

Gridlock wrote in post #8046186
celestial porn indeed, very nice

Wait till I tell Mom that I'm a pornographer!

Last night I hooked up the 4" refractor and the Barlow to get a FL of 3000 mm and shot a mosaic. It took four fields to cover the Moon and I took five shots of each. First, I stacked the five of each field to lower noise, then I photomerged the four stacked images into one. I ended up with a monster image (97 MB) of the entire moon at the resolutions of the earlier images in this thread. Lots of detail.

Now, it's pretty heavily oversampled for the telescope's resolution and that's most of why it's so big. The disk is about 6000 pixels across! One interesting note, sharpening gave absolutely no improvement at all, so it must about as sharp as the resolution will allow. I'm still playing with color cast and curves, trying to make it look real but not washed out.

So here's the vastly downsampled version. I might make a great big poster out of the original for my office.

Comments and criticisms are welcome!

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Not sure if anyone's asked this already ... but is Bernoulli based on Earth? I can't help but wonder if he's stationed somewhere overhead, orbiting us, while popping off these shots ... they're FANTASTIC!

That first one is very, very nice. Kinda surreal.