Tycho Crater to the Lunar South Pole

            Tycho Crater to the Lunar South Pole
May 10, 2022

"The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say."
- Gregory McGuire

I love the portions of the Moon along the dividing line between night and day, where details spring into sharp relief due to low-angle lighting and mystery lurks in the vast gulfs where no light can yet reach, save lonely peaks that rise high enough to touch the light of the Sun.

This is the best photo of the Moon that I have yet achieved. Seeing was 5/5 for about 2 hours, and gave me an outstanding data set. It needed almost no processing other than that necessary to create one photo from a stack of 1339 video frames. I cropped it to a 3x2 ratio, and raised the exposure 3/4 stop. That's it. 

Please view this on a large screen, and take the opportunity to zoom in for closer looks. New details emerge with each step in. Explore the landscape of what may, in this decade, become the next home for humanity.

The best 25% of 5,355 video frames were stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Exposure adjustment and cropping with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2022.

Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
   

Taken on: June 6, 2022

Tags:

Moon

Luna

Lunar landscape

lunar terminator

lunar panorama

Lunar Southern Highlands

Tycho Crater

Tycho

Lunar South Pole

Clavius Crater

Clavius

Moretus

Moretus Crater

Maginus Crater

Maginus

Longomontanus Crater

Longomontanus

backyard astronomy

Amateur Astronomy

Amateur Astrophotography

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Celestron EdgeHD 8

ZWO ASI 290MM

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