From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 28, 2006 4:36:55 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] New Lunar Image

Hi Alan;

On 28-Oct-06, at 4:03 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi Milton -

I like your new wide mosaic a lot - I think it is one of your best - the

processing is very well done. Using the C8 at 8 meter focal length will

require really good seeing conditions, I think. I've found a focal length

about 7 meters to be optimum on the moon with my 255mm mak.

Thanks for the kind words. Turbulence was all over the place that night.

I have a lot of color enhanced targets that I want to image if mother nature will ever cooperate. Perhaps it's time to make another sacrifice to the "Turbulence" gods to appease them.

Tim and Walter - great new deep sky images from you.

I had one good night for lunar imaging late in the summer. I spent that

early morning doing 9 panel sweeps of a number of regions. I chose to

hand select the frames on these so that I could prioritize the sharpness

in a region of interest for each frame. The processing is going SLOW

(and our devastating storm from Oct 13 hasn't helped matters much).

The finished images are posted on the latest image page of my

website.

http://www.avertedimagination.com/latest_1.htm

The copernicus region image is probably my best lunar shot to date. I

have a few more to complete then its off to more average data from

October.

Very nice Copernicus. You even included the dark areas surrounding the small cluster of volcanic mounds on the right bottom side. It's too bad it wasn't lit from the left side so we could make out the other cluster of volcanic mounds on the left side.

Your mare nubium with Rupes Recta is also gorgeous too.

Have a great weekend..

Milton J. Aupperle

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