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Roberto Ortu
Cabras, Sardinia, Italy
05/13/2022
11:15 pm

Equipment Details:

Telescope Celestron 114/910 Newton
Planetary camera QHY5L-II-C
Barlow 2x Celestron Omni
Filter UV IR cut
Laptop computer

Post-processing Details:

Sharpcap to capture a 5000 frames video
Autostakkert! 3 and Registax 6 to process 40% of the total frames
GIMP for brightness and contrast in the final result.

Image Details:

Southern region of the Moon with Tycho, Clavius ​​and Schiller craters.

In this image, a large number of very different sized craters are clearly visible, typical of this region located in the southern hemisphere of the Moon.
The largest visible craters are: Tycho (diameter 85 Km), visible on the right in the photo, Clavius ​​(diameter 230 Km), visible south of Tycho and with other smaller craters inside, Schiller (180 Km), which Longomontanus (diameter 145 Km) appears very elongated on the left of the photo, not far from the lunar edge, visible almost in the center.

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