[Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images

[Hugh_3170]

+1

Both are clean and crisp - Yes Wow! Perfect

[golunvolo]

+1

+2 impressive.

[Nasos Kosmas]

Congrats on you captures Oivid! Really impressive moon and sun photos

[Bruno Schroder]

Superb!

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks everybody.  Armando, yes no problem with adapter for F-mount lenses, made by ZWO and others. As I noted earlier Z-mount lenses would not work on the ZWO cameras as they have to long flange distance.

With another moon phase last night better revealing the Apeninne (mid lower left) and Caucasus mountains, I had to make another try at that region. The Apennine mountains are >40,000 meters high! The Apollo 15 landing site is right next to the northern part of it east of the large Archimedes crater - seems like a daring task to land there. Another landmark shown is the Vallis Alps to the upper left which contains a structure called the Rille which is not quite resolved. Stack of the 15% best of 2000 full resolution video frames, cropped from horizontal to vertical.  (Again open in new tab for larger version.)

[Anthony]

Amazing detail!

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks Anthony.
Of course I could not stop there, there were more to be revealed as the moon phase advanced over the two days following the last image. First a tease where the edge of the Coperincus Crater starts showing, then one where the crater has fully emerged out of the dark. Seeing seemed to be progressing to worse, so for the last one I stacked only the best 5% of 3000 captured frames.

[armando_m]

Thanks everybody.  Armando, yes no problem with adapter for F-mount lenses, made by ZWO and others. As I noted earlier Z-mount lenses would not work on the ZWO cameras as they have to long flange distance.

With another moon phase last night better revealing the Apeninne (mid lower left) and Caucasus mountains, I had to make another try at that region. The Apennine mountains are >40,000 meters high! The Apollo 15 landing site is right next to the northern part of it east of the large Archimedes crater - seems like a daring task to land there. Another landmark shown is the Vallis Alps to the upper left which contains a structure called the Rille which is not quite resolved. Stack of the 15% best of 2000 full resolution video frames, cropped from horizontal to vertical.  (Again open in new tab for larger version.)

Wow I didn't know the  moon had mountains over 4km tall

Thanks so much for sharing your quest to obtain detailed moon images

[Øivind Tøien]

Wow I didn't know the  moon had mountains over 4km tall

Thanks so much for sharing your quest to obtain detailed moon images

Thanks, I also did not realize until I looked it up, and add a zero to that 40,000 m = 40km tall 
 

[ColinM]

Thanks, I also did not realize until I looked it up, and add a zero to that 40,000 m = 40km tall 

Agreed Armando and Øivind
Considering Everest is just over 8km high, that really puts things in perspective.

Do we know enough about the moon's geology to know how or why mountains are so much higher than on Earth?

[Øivind Tøien]

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Do we know enough about the moon's geology to know how or why mountains are so much higher than on Earth?

Lack of erosion by water and glaciers?

Animated interpretation of the evolution of the moon from NASA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY&ab_channel=NASAGoddard

[Brute]

Some from the Northern Lights earlier this month. My first experience seeing them.
North central Oregon.

[Øivind Tøien]

Beautiful captures Ken, and very nice foreground subject! Thanks for posting.

Sunspot active region AR3664 which has now been renamed to AR3667 according to conventions has appeared again from the back side of the Sun and still remains quite active. So keep alert at Spaceweather.com for possible more happenings.

[Øivind Tøien]

The latest addition to my setup, a leveling platform and a G4 Pro geared head, both from Leofoto (#1) had to be tested on the famous AR3664(AR3667) at the lower right before it disappeared again, although seeing was not too good; 500PF + TC-20E III and Astrosolar film on ASI678 MC, as I recall stack of 30% best of about 2000 frames (#2). The geared head makes it much easier to navigate within a capture field of fraction of a degree.

The quick handheld unstacked image with 500PF + TC-20E III and Astrosolar film on Z8 I got late yesterday evening showing several new really impressive sunspot regions (AR3712 and AR3713 from bottom) is even more interesting. One can almost see how magnetic lines travels between the two sub-regions of AR3712 (#3, open in new tab for larger version).

I also had to try the new setup on an IR capture of a daytime crescent second day moon, but seeing was not great so I only used the 500PF with TC-14E III with the ASI 678MC, stacking 20% of 2000 captured video frames  (#4).

[Bruno Schroder]

There is a good probability of unusually strong Northern Lights today, potentially as strong as in May, making them visible further south.
Could are rather uncooperative here but they might leave during the night.

Nice captures, Ken and Øivind