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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
My friend Alan Friedman, who works from his home in downtown Buffalo,
NY, has outdone himself, I think. Please see http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina.html and http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina_vertical.html. These are the same image, the former in landscape orientation, and the latter in traditional north-up orientation. In my eye this photo stands alongside the Hubble Ultra Deep Field as the most awe-inspiring astrophoto I have seen. Note to Chris: Don't try this at home. The computers that Alan uses, from 'scope to final image, aren't available in Colorado, anyway :-] Davoud -- Sell GM for scrap metal. The country will recover and be better in the long run without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down. usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
"Davoud" wrote in message ... My friend Alan Friedman, who works from his home in downtown Buffalo, NY, has outdone himself, I think. Please see http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina.html and http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina_vertical.html. They really are astounding and as good as any JAXA HD lunar orbiter shot....but with some $10,000 worth of equipment, what do you expect? |
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"Davoud" wrote in message ... My friend Alan Friedman, who works from his home in downtown Buffalo, NY, has outdone himself, I think. Please see http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina.html and http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina_vertical.html. Those are wonderful images, Davoud. Thanks for posting the links. |
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On Dec 1, 8:05*pm, "White Space Trash" wrote:
They really are astounding and as good as any JAXA HD lunar orbiter shot....but with *some $10,000 worth of equipment, what do you expect? Do you suppose that anybody else with $10k could easily duplicate these stunning images? There are probably quite a number of amateurs who have far more invested in this hobby. It is quite a modest sum after all. Has any other amateur shared images of this breathtaking quality? The rendition of surface texture and the image scale are particularly remarkable. |
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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
On Nov 30, 11:23 pm, Davoud wrote:
My friend Alan Friedman, who works from his home in downtown Buffalo, NY, has outdone himself, I think. Please see http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina.html and http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina_vertical.html. These are the same image, the former in landscape orientation, and the latter in traditional north-up orientation. In my eye this photo stands alongside the Hubble Ultra Deep Field as the most awe-inspiring astrophoto I have seen. Note to Chris: Don't try this at home. The computers that Alan uses, from 'scope to final image, aren't available in Colorado, anyway :-] Davoud -- Sell GM for scrap metal. The country will recover and be better in the long run without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down. usenet *at* davidillig dawt com Same equipment catching Jupiter, Saturn and especially Venus along with our physically dark Selene/moon should be impressive, especially if given 4+ bandpass filters and thus 4+ stacked images for the natural mineral color/hue saturation. ~ BG |
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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
They really are astounding and as good as any JAXA HD lunar orbiter
shot....but with *some $10,000 worth of equipment, what do you expect? ******************* $10,000 won't even buy a really good mount these days... for example, see; http://www.bisque.com/Products/Paramount/ \Paul A |
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:10:41 -0800 (PST), palsing
wrote: $10,000 won't even buy a really good mount these days... Fortunately, high resolution lunar imaging doesn't require exceptional equipment. You could pull this off with a few thousand dollars. The magic in this shot was in the image processing- what you could consider post processed adaptive optics. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
"palsing" wrote in message ... They really are astounding and as good as any JAXA HD lunar orbiter shot....but with some $10,000 worth of equipment, what do you expect? ******************* $10,000 won't even buy a really good mount these days... for example, see; http://www.bisque.com/Products/Paramount/ \Paul A You're an idiot |
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Best Lunar Photograph I Have Ever Seen
On Dec 1, 11:05 am, "White Space Trash" wrote:
"Davoud" wrote in message ... My friend Alan Friedman, who works from his home in downtown Buffalo, NY, has outdone himself, I think. Please see http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina.html and http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/kleine_Ina_vertical.html. They really are astounding and as good as any JAXA HD lunar orbiter shot....but with some $10,000 worth of equipment, what do you expect? Google “Moon occultation” then goto Google Images Jupiter - Moon occultation: http://www.equatorialplatforms.com/moon.saturn.jpg http://sweiller.free.fr/AstroMovies/...nMoonColor.jpg This public archive of mostly Selene/moon images isn’t half bad, though imagine how the f40 (395 meter focal length) of KECK could do nearly 100 fold better, including via earthshine and green laser illuminated in addition to polarized optics, and then perhaps a whole lot better yet from ISRO that’s sort of holding back their 10 m/pixel TMC images. http://lpod.wikispaces.com/2008 http://www.avertedimagination.com/main1.htm http://www.avertedimagination.com/latest_1.htm Moon mineralogy: (kinda bluish saturated due to the degree of UV secondary/recoil black-light affect), and otherwise soon enough a whole lot better yet from those ISRO HySI color/hue composites of their 64 (+/- 8 nm) color/hue bands.. http://lpod.wikispaces.com/November+7%2C+2008 This guy could certainly do a damn fine job of imaging our physically dark but otherwise fully solar illuminated Selene/moon along with a little old planet as reddish and relatively dim albedo as Mars included within the same FOV. Just think what Jupiter, Saturn and especially if having Venus within the same FOV as Selene is going to look like. ~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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palsing wrote:
$10,000 won't even buy a really good mount these days... Chris L Peterson wrote: Fortunately, high resolution lunar imaging doesn't require exceptional equipment. You could pull this off with a few thousand dollars. The magic in this shot was in the image processing- what you could consider post processed adaptive optics. I couldn't pull that off if I had unlimited funds. The good hardware and software certainly make the work easier, but the skill, patience, and dedication of the imager are critical. Alan gave a talk at the first Macintosh Astronomy Workshop a couple of years back and, as I understand it, he basically uses two pieces of software for camera control and image processing--Astro IIDC http://www.outcastsoft.com/ for image acquisition and aligning and stacking; and Photoshop for the finishing touches. It's interesting to note that Alan collected the data in September, 2007, and released the finished mosaic just two days ago. Davoud -- Sell GM for scrap metal. The country will recover and be better in the long run without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down. usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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