Straight Wall 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

John Carruthers wrote:
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




Rupes Recta is just my fav lunar feature.

Here is my first attempt at it last year;

http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...D-2646553.html

And here is a reworked Messier A & B
(tho still a little out of focus)


http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...D-2552837.html



Please keep at it


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On Jan 28, 8:39 am, AM wrote:
John Carruthers wrote:
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.

jcRupes Recta is just my fav lunar feature.

Here is my first attempt at it last year;

http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...o.html--SiteID...

And here is a reworked Messier A & B
(tho still a little out of focus)

http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...o.html--SiteID...

Please keep at it

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Fine Pics Gentlemen. Keep em' coming

Ben T
90.126 + 35.539

This is my blurry masterpiece from a couple years back. It's a single shot
using eyepiece projecion and a Nikon Coolpix 885.

http://www.novac.com/photos/moon2.php - 2nd photo on page

Ralph K.




Rupes Recta is just my fav lunar feature.

Here is my first attempt at it last year;

http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...D-2646553.html

And here is a reworked Messier A & B
(tho still a little out of focus)


http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb...D-2552837.html



Please keep at it


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R. Kantrowitz wrote:
This is my blurry masterpiece from a couple years back. It's a single shot
using eyepiece projecion and a Nikon Coolpix 885.

http://www.novac.com/photos/moon2.php - 2nd photo on page

Ralph K.




Nice !

Amazing what a well done *digicam* pic can do.


You will see me out observing this spring.
Been real busy round home this winter, with
younger kid going off to war, last home leave,
got to go out west, see him off, visit older son,
ya ya ya. (ie; got to go work for it...)

Thanx for the reminder.

8-)



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On Jan 28, 7:40 am, "John Carruthers"
wrote:
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

Hi:

Very nice indeed! Here's a closeup of the area I did night before last
with a C11 under bad (for us on the U.S. Gulf Coast ;-)) seeing...

http://skywatch.brainiac.com/planets/index.htm

Uncle Rod

JC,

I like your picture. What is Rupes Recta? Can you provide any details
about this formation, what is it, how long is it, how did it form,
where is it, etc...?

In what phase is it best observed? I suppose about half....

Errol
www.pasnola.com

Here is one of many, many Google hits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupes_Recta

On Jan 28, 10:49 pm, "Starboard" wrote:
JC,

I like your picture. What is Rupes Recta? Can you provide any details
about this formation, what is it, how long is it, how did it form,
where is it, etc...?

In what phase is it best observed? I suppose about half....

Errolwww.pasnola.com

Here is one of many, many Google hits:

Yeah, I know. I could have done that myself. But asking help keep the
s.a.a. busy with astro-talk and informs others who many not have been
as curious to get plugged into the system.

Thanks for the link..

Errol

On 29 Jan, 04:49, "Starboard" wrote:
JC,

I like your picture. What is Rupes Recta? Can you provide any details
about this formation, what is it, how long is it, how did it form,
where is it, etc...?

In what phase is it best observed? I suppose about half....

Errolwww.pasnola.com

Thanks guys for your thoughts and inspiration (and new aspirations).
Next time I'll use the EQ platform as well, see what I get. The
weather here is set steady but not clear :-(
I must get hold of a better webcam.

Rupes Recta (Straight wall) is aproximately 110 km long and 300m high,
at lat 22s : long 7w.(Hatfield, map 9, plate 9a/d/e/f )
7 to 8 days lit from one side and about 24 days on the other.
When the Alpine valley is showing so is the straight wall.