moon images 27-01-07

http://jc_atm.mysite.orange.co.uk/

The "Straight Wall" link shows a picture takn with a 640X480 webcam
yesterday evening. The smallest crater I can see is Thebbit B, ~2
miles diameter.
It was an exeptionally steady evening here so just before 17:00 GMT
27-01-07 I set up hoping to get some shots of the moon passing through
M45. My webcam could only get the brighter stars like Alcyone so I
moved on to the better know landmarks like the Alpine valley and the
Straight wall. For the shot on my site I used an ancient Omni webcam
with a 2x Barlow in my 10" F6.1. I used Vega to capture 10 frames
merged into a .bmp.
Messier A and B plus their associated rays also showed up well even in
the raw video.

jc