A cool and clear evening with the Moon

Today's
Conditions		 : clear sky , Temp -7C down to 2C, ~75% humidity, mediocre seeing, low wind

For almost all images

Instrument : Mak MK67 150/1800mm guided (no Barlow or eyepiece projection)
Camera : QHY5III715C
Exposure : SER Video 2000 frames at 2.2ms/frame | ca 900x900 pixel | size reduced
Camera Settings : @~100 fps, gain 128
Software : Firecapture, Astrostakkert 3, Astrosurface, Gimp

Rille in the Lunar Alps - First time I got the rille in the rille :-)
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:00 UT

Rima Hadley - The site where Apollo 15 landed
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:22 UT

Plato crater
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:01 UT

Must still find out, what it is ...
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:04 UT

Tycho crater - I think ...
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:04 UT

The lunar South-Pole region
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:05 UT

Another view of the Apennine mountains
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:14 UT

Full frame view of the Norther Lunar Hemisphere (reduced size)
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:07 UT
View the full size image : DOWNLOAD HERE

The Moon through the APO refractor. A test image in Black&White with the IMX533C astro camera
Date - Time : 17 April 2024 - 18:40 UT

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : November 2023