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| Christmas night 2009, 9 day moon On Christmas night the sky became hazy by about 10 PM but as the haze appeared the seeing was briefly superb. TEC 250 f/20, DMK mono camera Processed with AVI stack, Registax for Wavelet filtering and Photoshop Fortunately my son, Michael was here for Christmas to assist with the imaging and processing |
| Detail of Mons Pico region (at 7 o'clock from Plato) Craters down to about 1000 meters diameter are visible(Dawes limit for 250mm aperture is 880 m for the moon that night) . The LOPAM image confirms there are craters here, not just noise (Note the projection and orientation of the LOPAM image is very different) |
See also from the same night: