Re: Straight Wall 27/01/07

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/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-2646553.html

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


http://home.comcast.net/~sctuser/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-2552837.html



Please keep at it :)


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