mare serenitatis and mare tranquillitatis

[gabs]

[Carastro]

Hi Gabs - Tip.

 

You can use your Bahtinov mask on stars to get focus - then lock your focus on your telescope and move to the Moon and planets and focus will be exactly the same as it is all at infinity.

 

Carole 

[gabs]

thanks Carole,

I will definitely do it next time 🙂

[TerryMcK]

Once you have nailed focus try taking a short video of around 1000 frames (use Sharpcap as your camera might work with that) or just a native video and then run it through AutoStakkert. It will choose the best frames compensating for atmospheric disturbance and stack them into a crisp image. 

[gabs]

12 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Once you have nailed focus try taking a short video of around 1000 frames (use Sharpcap as your camera might work with that) or just a native video and then run it through AutoStakkert. It will choose the best frames compensating for atmospheric disturbance and stack them into a crisp image. 

Thanks Terry ,

 

I will try on the next days with the ful moon.

 

gabs

[TerryMcK]

You will get better results without full moon as you will see more detail. Try to aim onto the terminator area which is where the shadows are the longest. That is where the dark and light areas meet or from the moon's perspective where day meets night. You can pick up some really strong features that way.