Friday, April 4, 2025

The Moon with the Dwarf 3

I was able to capture the moon under superb seeing conditions last night. This image is a stack of the best 350 from 700 captures. It was stacked in Autostakkert with very minimal wavelets in Registax 6. There's lots of detail if you zoom in. The image is a testament not only to the seeing conditions, but to the optics of the Dwarf 3. There are three craters in the center of the disk on the terminator. The first is Theophilus, is a 60-mile-wide ring that borders the shore of Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar). On this image, you can see the long shadow cast by the cluster of mountain peaks at Theophilus's center 4,600 feet in height). Next to Theophilius is Cyrillus. Part of its circumference has been breached by Theophilus. The adjacent crater,Catharina, is similarly-sized, but it lacks a central peak and its walls have partly disintegrated. Near Catharina's rim you can see the Rupes Altai mountain range. Not bad for a 35mm lens :) Compare this image with the Seestar 50 image posted earlier.

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