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Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus       #5632599 - 01/20/13 03:11 AM Attachment (64 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   A spectacular clear night tonight! Along with some great lunar viewing, easily peasily saw the Trapezium E&F stars, and split the pup! My cooled down Z12 performed at it's best. Tonight's lunar highlights were the crater Maginus with a nice ray of sunlight beaming onto the crater floor, and the Montes Apenninus casting some nice shadows. Afocal pics using my Nikon S6300 point and shoot through a 28mm Edmund RKE eyepiece. Rob Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5632601 - 01/20/13 03:14 AM Attachment (41 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Montes Apenninus Post Extras:       THEPLOUGH ELEVEN Grandchildren; FIVE Ducklings Reged: 01/11/08 Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5632739 - 01/20/13 08:25 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Great shots Rob... Post Extras:       RobertED Carpal Tunnel Reged: 07/11/03 Loc: Johnston, RI Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: THEPLOUGH]       #5632835 - 01/20/13 09:49 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice clear shots!!....beautiful job RobDob!!!! Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobertED]       #5633562 - 01/20/13 05:02 PM Attachment (30 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Guys! In the span of a few hours last night, I captured over 200+ images in waves of viewing. I'm still going over all of the images, but I caught the Maginus Ray sequence in the following mosaic: Post Extras:       Kutno scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 08/17/09 Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5633714 - 01/20/13 06:16 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice Ray Rob! Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: Kutno]       #5633730 - 01/20/13 06:27 PM Attachment (26 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Kutno! Found a decent shot of Mons Piton and the Alps throwing down some crisp shadows. Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5633779 - 01/20/13 06:56 PM Attachment (27 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   With all of the amazing objects to view, I overlooked a nice little shadow-show going on over at Rupes Recta. Rupes Recta is actually a gradual slope of <10 degrees, the shadows suggest a steep cliff. Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5633912 - 01/20/13 08:42 PM Attachment (18 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Can't resist a tilt-shifted Alps . Post Extras:       dennyhenke super member Reged: 09/07/12 Loc: Fredericktown, MO Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5634223 - 01/21/13 12:38 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Wow. A fantastic series!! Post Extras:       starman345 Wait, I'm Thinking Reged: 07/06/10 Loc: New Brunswick, Canada Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: dennyhenke]       #5634367 - 01/21/13 05:55 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Beautiful shots! Post Extras:       NeilMac Pooh-Bah Reged: 09/25/10 Loc: MedHat, AB, Canada Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: starman345]       #5634796 - 01/21/13 11:58 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Very nice !! Post Extras:       Dave Mitsky Postmaster Reged: 04/08/02 Loc: PA, USA, Planet Earth Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5635455 - 01/21/13 05:59 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks for posting your excellent images, Rob. There's more on the Maginus Lunar Sunrise Ray at http://www.lunar-occultations.com/rlo/rays/maginus.htm and http://www.lunar-occultations.com/rlo/rays/maginusr.htm Predicted occurrence times can be found at http://www.lunar-occultations.com/rlo/rays/maginusp.htm Dave Mitsky Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: Dave Mitsky]       #5635619 - 01/21/13 07:54 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thank you all for the kind words . Dave, great links! Upon observing the Maginus Ray, I had no idea what crater it was until consulting Lunar Map HD on my tablet. I ran into your observing report after googling the Maginus Ray (just to make sure I wasn't making it up). Your report helped verify what I was seeing - Thanks! Rob Edited by RobDob (01/21/13 08:02 PM) Post Extras:       azure1961p Postmaster Reged: 01/17/09 Loc: USA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: Dave Mitsky]       #5635668 - 01/21/13 08:34 PM Attachment (15 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Rob I shot some vids of the Clavius and Plato regions last night in some lousy 20 knot gusts - no tracking and a horribly bouncing image but some wasn't bad. My favs ate your Maginus shadow progression as well with the straight wall. Terrific work !!!! Pete Edited by azure1961p (01/21/13 10:30 PM) Post Extras:       azure1961p Postmaster Reged: 01/17/09 Loc: USA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: azure1961p]       #5635858 - 01/21/13 10:31 PM Attachment (17 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   And then Archimedes and the Highlands, I picked up in lighting where you left off it would seem. Pete Edited by azure1961p (01/21/13 10:32 PM) Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: azure1961p]       #5635982 - 01/21/13 11:40 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice pics Pete! Looks like you busted through the turbulent seeing and caught some good detail! Rob Post Extras:       azure1961p Postmaster Reged: 01/17/09 Loc: USA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5635991 - 01/21/13 11:45 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Had it not been so windy it would've been ok actually. Your progression series of light and shadow have me thinking up some animation type things - time lapse. Same thing you could do with your cam. Shoot a pic or ten every ten minutes for a couple hours - string them together and have a time lapse animation of rays and shadows. Something to think about I guess. I like your approach. Pete Post Extras:       RobDob sage Reged: 04/10/10 Loc: Brentwood (East Bay Area), CA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: azure1961p]       #5645415 - 01/27/13 03:26 AM Attachment (11 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Weeell, Pete - It's a tedious approach. My hard drive is filling up with a zillion moon pics. But, the good thing is having an archive of images to fall back on, which does come in handy for shadow sequences and general coverage of the better moon features. Eventually, hope to have the whole nearside moon covered in terminator-shadowed-semi-decent resolution pics. Hope you don't mind, couldn't resist tilt shifting your highlands pic . Rob Post Extras:       azure1961p Postmaster Reged: 01/17/09 Loc: USA Re: Maginus Ray and Montes Apenninus [Re: RobDob]       #5645646 - 01/27/13 09:07 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Lol no that was fine. The tilt shift is an interesting concept. Pete Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all)

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