Moon - almost full! (Tom Gray)

Moon - almost full!

Oops! My first attempt at an 8 panel higher resolution image of the day 13 moon...unlucky for some?

Captured in Meade Envisage, a very old live stacking tool that was developed for the Meade range of Deep Sky and planetary Imaging cameras. It has a number of presets for different objects, allowing quality parameters to be set following a series of evaluation frames; in addition the moon preset allows a medium edge kernel filter to be applied to the stack, providing a sharper image.

I made stacks for each panel, and then used Microsoft ICE to stitch these, at which point I realise I'd missed a chunk! No further processing has been done - I present various quadrants as revisions.

[Ref Moon Globe HD and Wikipedia]

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Title: Mare Humorum

Description: Mare Nubium gives way to Mare Humorum - the sea of moisture, with the crater Gassendi on the Northern shore. Lava has flowed from the Mare into the crater, so this is a shallow crater. Shickard (at 12 o'clock in my South up image) is a walled plain.

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Title: Tycho

Description: Tycho is an 85km wide crater thought to be 100 million years old, with an enormous ray system - impact ejecta - reaching up to 1500 km away. Seen here inverted (S at top) the rays are most apparent when the moon is full.

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Title: Copernicus,

Description: Copernicus is a 93km diameter crater, sinking to a depth of 3.8 km, and characterised by three peaks (rising to 1.2 km from the crater floor) and a strongly wrinkled crater wall and ramparts. Its smaller ray system reaching as far as 800 km across the lunar surface. To the right (east) lies Kepler (above) and the bright Aristarchus (below) with the extraordinary meandering Vallis Schroteri complex.

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Title: Mare Imbrium

Description: Mare Imbrium (the sea of showers) dominates, with the large, dark crater Plato, a lava filled 100km crater on the north-eastern shore. The Montes Alpes stretch to the East, with the narrow Vallis Alpes, a 10km wide valley that stretches for 166km.

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