Mars and Moon Craters this month

I took these images last night (7-15-2016) with a color digital camera thru a 10" F14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain. The color saturation was set higher than normal on the Lunar craters, but these colors are for real.

Mars:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...8.jpg&caption=

Moon Crate Gassendi in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...9.jpg&caption=

Moon crater Copernicus in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...0.jpg&caption=

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 7:38:53 PM UTC-7, Razzmatazz wrote:
I took these images last night (7-15-2016) with a color digital camera thru a 10" F14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain. The color saturation was set higher than normal on the Lunar craters, but these colors are for real.

Mars:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...8.jpg&caption=

Moon Crate Gassendi in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...9.jpg&caption=

Moon crater Copernicus in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...0.jpg&caption=

Yeh, that Mars photo is amazing!
Use to own a Russian 6" Mac-Cass,
http://www.astromart.com/images/clas...9/701827-1.jpg
very sharp scope and portable too!
But the focuser mechanism was too complicated and got tighter with time, had to sell it!
I heard the Mak-Newts are real planet killers!
http://www.astromart.com/images/clas...9/701827-1.jpg

Beautiful images! I especially like the colors in your moonscapes.

Sketcher

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8:38:53 PM UTC-6, Razzmatazz wrote:
I took these images last night (7-15-2016) with a color digital camera thru a 10" F14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain. The color saturation was set higher than normal on the Lunar craters, but these colors are for real.

Mars:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...8.jpg&caption=

Moon Crate Gassendi in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...9.jpg&caption=

Moon crater Copernicus in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...0.jpg&caption=

On Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:09:16 UTC+2, Sketcher wrote:
Beautiful images! I especially like the colors in your moonscapes.

Sketcher

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8:38:53 PM UTC-6, Razzmatazz wrote:
I took these images last night (7-15-2016) with a color digital camera thru a 10" F14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain. The color saturation was set higher than normal on the Lunar craters, but these colors are for real.

Moon crater Copernicus in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...0.jpg&caption=

A little worrying that the conspiracy theorists will assume that some ancient civilization tried to camouflage the Moon from the Earthling's view. Not helped by the recently whitewashed building complex in the vast crater. Or is it a giant, alien footballer scoring a goal in the net?

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:09:14 -0700 (PDT), Sketcher wrote:

Beautiful images! I especially like the colors in your moonscapes.

Sketcher


Agree, those moonscapes were quite a treat.

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On Sunday, 17 July 2016 15:24:50 UTC-4, Bill wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:09:14 -0700 (PDT), Sketcher wrote:

Beautiful images! I especially like the colors in your moonscapes.

Sketcher


Agree, those moonscapes were quite a treat.

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Check out the 2005 image of Mars though a 14" SCT near the bottom of this page. A good scope is a must, but location and seeing matter just as much.

http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/kk05/m051026z.htm

On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 4:15:06 AM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 15:24:50 UTC-4, Bill wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:09:14 -0700 (PDT), Sketcher wrote:

Beautiful images! I especially like the colors in your moonscapes.

Sketcher


Agree, those moonscapes were quite a treat.

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Email address is a Spam trap.

Check out the 2005 image of Mars though a 14" SCT near the bottom of this page. A good scope is a must, but location and seeing matter just as much..

http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/kk05/m051026z.htm

And the fact that it was 50% larger for the C14 image. Right now Mars is well past its close approach as can be seen by the gibbous appearance. It is also so low in the sky that it's like looking at the image at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Best place to image the planets is in the tropics near the ocean where the laminar air flow allows the air to be very steady. I have used over 1000x in the Florida Keys, whereas here in the upper Midwest I would be lucky to see anything over 350x. In the video of Mars that I took last week, the planet wiggles and pulsates, bobs and dances like an amoeba. Nevertheless, by using a video stream and having software select the sharpest frames for stacking, the net result is a useable image. It's a process known as Lucky Imaging. The software that can do this is RegiStax or Autostackert, both of which are freeware developed by enthusiastic amateurs.

On 7/16/16 7:38 PM, Razzmatazz wrote:
I took these images last night (7-15-2016) with a color digital camera thru a 10" F14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain. The color saturation was set higher than normal on the Lunar craters, but these colors are for real.

Mars:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...8.jpg&caption=

Moon Crate Gassendi in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...9.jpg&caption=

Moon crater Copernicus in color:
http://www.astromart.com/common/imag...0.jpg&caption=



Good God! It really is Green Cheese.