Moon Clavius Craterlets
Moon Information
- North is at bottom
- Above average seeing
- Images taken from driveway
- Between 20 to 30 craterlets on Clavius crater floor.
- Date May 1, 2004
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: 0.177 sec
- GAIN: 100
- OFFSET: 40
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 70
- EVALUATION COUNT: 10
- MONO: off
- KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedHard, Apply after 10 images
- HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
- HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
- HISTOGRAM LOG: off
- ROI: off
- OBJECT: Moon
- IMAGES: 120 seconds of images stacked
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on craterlet on Clavius crater floor
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Argonaut 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope,
f/12 focal ratio, 1800mm focal length
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Telescope Mount: Orion EQ-3 mount with EQ-3M dual-axis DC motor drive on
Celestron vibration suppression pads
Imaging Processing
- Image quality selection and stacking was done automatically by Meade LPI software.
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1.14.0 beta, wavlett processed.
- Adobe Potoshop Version CS, unsharp mask, levels, and crop.
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2003 David Haworth