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This picture shows much of the north-west quadrant of the Moon, the Mare Imbrium and various features to the north.
It was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 with a 0.33 focal reducer on 16th December 2003 at 04:47 UT, when the Moon was 21.6 days old.
Date and Time: 16th December 2003 04:47 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with Meade 0.33 focal reducer
Capture: K3CCDTools. 50% gamma, 1/500", 10% gain, 303 frames
Processing: Registax. 116 frames stacked. Wavelet 1 = 5
This picture, at the same scale as the one above, was taken when the Moon was 11.5 days old and shows the northern area east of Sinus Iridum. There are plenty of named features in this area. A slight difference in albedo (brightness) can be seen in the surface of Mare Imbrium which is more clearly seen in a exaggerated-colour version and implies that the eastern part of Mare Imbrium is covered in something different from the western side. The same difference can be seen in a closer version imaged in infra-red light.
It was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 with a 0.33 focal reducer on 12th November 2005 at 20:38 UT, when the Moon was 11.5 days old.
Date and Time: 12th November 2005 20:38 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with Meade 0.33 focal reducer, IR-block and Neodymium filters
Capture: K3CCDTools. 0% gamma, 1/100", 25% gain, 617 frames
Processing: Registax. 174 frames stacked. Wavelet 1 = 10, gamma 1.5, histogram 22-200 Home Back to NW Quadrant
