Mare Crisium at sunset
Four image mosaic of Mare Crisium and Crater Cleomedes along the terminator. Images taken with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope and Phillips Toucam 840K webcam. From my backyard in Louisville, CO betweem 2:30 and 3:00 am MDT this morning. Sky was clear, no wind, turbulence 7/10, 50% humidity, 64°F, and excellent transparency.
August 12th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Hi Vern,
Very nice shots!!.It looks like the shot might be just a tad overexposed?.Hmmmm,maybe it is just my monitor?!.HAHAHAHA
I could only wish to get such close up shots like that.
GOOD JOB hope to see more!.
I’m glad that you finally had decent skies for imaging.The skies here are cleaning up a little but,now we have a lot of wind.Are you going to have your scope out during the meteor shower?.
August 12th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Andrew, thanks! I agree — it is generally overexposed. The details on the left are washed out. There is such a wide variation between light and shadow on the terminator that finding the right combination is hit or miss, especially around 2:30am. I\’ll definitely try again, I rather like the narrow strip along the terminator. Next time I\’ll try to go about 2 more webcam fields north and maybe 4 or 5 to the south.
We\’re socked in again with clouds right now though its supposed to clear sometime after midnight. There were reports in our local astroclubs mail list of some seeing 5 - 9 meteors an hour last night. I slept in, one all nighter is about all I can manage at a time.
August 13th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Hi Vern,
Dropping in to say “Hello”. Real nice shots of Mare Crisium. Charlie and I observed it in sunset Friday Night/Saturday morning. The terminator was further east though with some fantastic shadows across the floor and relief along the capes.
Having stopped by Andrew’s blog, I saw the your comment and link to the solar archives. Those are some phenomenal imgaes. As you suggested, it’s time to start saving.
c’ya peter