From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: January 9, 2007 7:57:47 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: New Luna Images

Hi Folks;

Despite some issues with my HEQ5 mount (it really doesn not like -20°

Centigrade weather), I still managed to get a little bit of imaging in

over X-Mas.

Here is the 15 day old moon and a detailed strip along the western limb.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/20070104_MJA_Luna.jpg

It's scaled down by 50% from the original and was shot using a color

Flea2 1032x776 camera with a Focal Reducer on the C8 (1000 mm focal

length). Seeing was about 5 to 6 / 10 turbulence, but I had 50 to 70

km surface winds blowing the mount around. It's a composite of 14

movies for the full disk and the details strip is another 9 movies.

Exposure times were 3 ms per frames, so you can pretty well freeze out

any turbulence.

And here are the normal and enhanced color images of the 7 day old

moon at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/20061227_MJA_Luna.jpg

I also managed to capture the Valentine Dome then too.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle