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Apollo 11 Landing Site, Sea of Tranquility, 17 April 2013, David Dearden

Apollo 11 Landing Site, Sea of Tranquility, 17 April 2013

Apollo 11 Landing Site, Sea of Tranquility, 17 April 2013, David Dearden

Apollo 11 Landing Site, Sea of Tranquility, 17 April 2013

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Description

This is one of the first images with my modified Logitech c270 HD camera. This has much smaller pixels than the LPI, and hence gives a more “magnified” effect. There is still some vignetting with this camera. Capture was fully Mac-native. OK for a first try; seeing was poor. The small crater just slightly above center is Armstrong.

Date: 17 Apr 2013

Subject: Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 Landing Site

Scope: AT8IN + Meade 3x Barlow

Filter: Baader Planetarium Fringe Killer (UV-IR cut)

Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)

Guiding: manual

Camera: Modified Logitech c270 HD

Acquisition: BTV+Webcam Settings

Exposure: 120 s, ~10 fps

Stacking: PIPP (Wine); Registax 6 (VMWare), best 80 frames of about 1200

Processing: Wavelets in Registax 6; StarTools Contrast:Agressiveness 25; Sharpen; Deconvolute:3 pix; CS6 add crosshairs, Astronomy Tools AstroFrame.

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Apollo 11 Landing Site, Sea of Tranquility, 17 April 2013, David Dearden