Close-up view of Posidonius, a spectacular crater, 95km across, on the edge of the Sea of Serenity.
C11 with a Baader barlow working at x1.58
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A lovely collection of rilles around the craters Triesnecker and the wonderful Hyginus.
C11 SCT captured on 24th April
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Hadley Rille just peeping out from the shadows of the Apennine mountains, into the early morning sunlight.
Another shot from 24th April
The Prolemaeus crater chain and Straight Wall region, taken on the 25th.
Ptolemaeus is a great target to test scope resolution. Smallest craterlets visible are around 1.5km across.
C11 with a x1.58 barlow and Uranus-M camera.
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One of my favourite crater chains on the Moon - Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina, all spectacular formations of around 100km diameter, located on the western shores of the Sea of Nectar.
Taken with a C11 on 23rd April
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6 image mosaic of the lunar terminator on the 23rd April.
One of the biggest mosaics I've done, at 35 Megapixels, and you may need to open the image to see it all.
Seeing wasn't perfect but I'm pleased how it turned out.
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My PC is out of action at present so I can't process new images.
So, in anticipation of this year's total solar eclipse, here are a small collection of some of my eclipse pics from the last few years.
Praying for clear skies š¤š»š
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Still processing lots of lunar images from last week.
This is the first from a series taken on the 24th, showing the terminator through the southern highlands region.
The rim of Clavius is just beginning to catch the early morning sun at lower left.
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Another close-up from the 25th.
The seeing was a bit wobbly, but pleased to have captured Hadley Rille, landing site of Apollo 15, snaking around the foothills of the Apennine mountains
C11 with x1.58 barlow and Uranus-M camera. Astronomik 642nm filter
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Final image from the 24th.
The middle of the Moon, as seen from Earth, has several impressive large craters.
Visible here are Albetegnius just right of centre and, to its left, the marvelous Ptolemaeus emerging into the morning sunlight
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