Copernicus and Eratosthenes, 2016-03-17

            This portion of the lunar surface stretches from Copernicus on the left (southwest) to Eratosthenes and the southern end of Montes Appeninus (northeast) on the right. Just over 73% of the sunlit side of the Moon was facing the Earth at the time; it was 8.9 days past new. I wanted to show the change in illumination from near the terminator, where Copernicus was, to the mountains, which were in more direct sunlight. The total distance on the moon from the left to right edge of the image is about 540 km.

Images were taken with a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" scope and 3x Barlow using a Point Grey color CCD shooting at 50 fps. Seeing was good, but transparency average to poor; humidity was above 90%. AVIs were 600 frames in length, and the best 150 frames were stacked in AutoStakkert. Initial wavelet processing was done in PixInsight, and images were mosaiced with Microsoft ICE. A few final touches were done in PS CS 5.1

Taken on: March 18, 2016

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