Lunar Gallery

I  shoot the moon not so often. It is not because I don't like shooting the moon, but the bad seeing conditions.

It was found that, at my observation site, the seeing condition would deteriorate most of the time when the moon rose up. Thus, I couldn't do my planetary imaging well when the moon was high up in the sky.

Do you also have same experience?

Therefore, up to now, I can only have captured very small no. of lunar images, and their quality are just acceptable.

Some of the images posted in this Gallery were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital still camera which I think some of you might not know.

Personally, I like the images captured with the CP more than those by a ToUcam because of better dynamic range shown in the images.

Unless specified, the final images were processed on just ONE frame of data with very simple skills such as Level and Curve stretching, unsharp masking, ...,etc. So, they look quite noisy.

Therefore, I am most appreciated if you could give me some feedback.

Lastly, please don't mind so less photographic data provided as I didn't keep the data well.

Enjoy Please.

	Copernicus ( Click on image for a larger version )
	Date	:	?
	Optical system	:	8" F6 Newtonian + Vixen LV-5mm eyepiece + Nikon CoolPix 990 digital still camera, afocal method
	Effective F	:	?
	Camera setting	:	Jpeg @ iso 400 (?), optical 3x zoom (?), 2048 x 1536
	Exp. time	:	?
	Mount	:	Vixen GP non-goto equatorial mount
	Guiding	:	Unguided
	Sky conditions	:	?
	Processing	:	Level & Curve stretching, Unsharp Masking & Gaussian Blur in PS 7.0.1
	Site of imaging	:	Yuen Long, Hong Kong
	Remark	:

	Sinus Iridium ( Click on image for a larger version )
	Date	:	?
	Optical system	:	8" F6 Newtonian + Vixen LV-5mm eyepiece + Nikon CoolPix 990 digital still camera, afocal method
	Effective F	:	?
	Camera setting	:	Jpeg @ iso 400 (?), optical 3x zoom (?), 2048 x 1536
	Exp. time	:	?
	Mount	:	Vixen GP non-goto equatorial mount
	Guiding	:	Unguided
	Sky conditions	:	?
	Processing	:	Level & Curve stretching, Unsharp Masking & Gaussian Blur in PS 7.0.1, ~ 94.5% crop
	Site of imaging	:	Yuen Long, Hong Kong
	Remark	:	Dew heavy

	Craters Aristoteles and Eudoxus ( Click on image for a larger version )
	Date	:	?
	Optical system	:	8" F4.5 Newtonian + Vixen LV-5mm eyepiece + Nikon CoolPix 990 digital still camera, afocal method
	Effective F	:	F = ?
	Camera setting	:	Jpeg @ iso 400 (?), optical 3x zoom (?), 2048 x 1536
	Exp. time	:	?
	Mount	:	Vixen GP non-goto equatorial mount
	Guiding	:	Unguided
	Sky conditions	:	?
	Processing	:	Level & Curve stretching, Unsharp Masking & Gaussian Blur in PS 7.0.1, converted to Gray tone
	Site of imaging	:	Yuen Long, Hong Kong
	Remark	:	?

	Tyco ( Click on image for a larger version )
	Date	:	05 Apr 2003 @ 14:22 UT
	Optical system	:	8" F4.5 Newtonian + ToUcam
	Effective F	:	F = 4.5
	Camera setting	:	640x480
	Exp. time	:	?
	Mount	:	Vixen GP-DX non-goto equatorial mount
	Guiding	:	Unguided
	Sky conditions	:	?
	Processing	:	131 frames stacked and Wavelets sliding in Registax V1.0, final touch in PS 7.0.1
	Site of imaging	:	Yuen Long, Hong Kong
	Remark	:	?

	Clavius ( Click on image for a larger version )
	Date	:	18 Apr 2005 @ 12:55 UT
	Optical system	:	12.5" F5 Newtonian + 2x barlow (?) + ToUcam
	Effective F	:	?
	Camera setting	:	640x480
	Exp. time	:	?
	Mount	:	Own-made equatorial mount
	Guiding	:	Unguided
	Sky conditions	:	?
	Processing	:	Level & Curve stretching, Unsharp Masking & Gaussian Blur in PS 7.0.1 on ONE best frame only
	Site of imaging	:	Yuen Long, Hong Kong
	Remark	:	?

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