Hi all,

After having spent a quite critical period, I’m now clear enough to
start again with processing old lunar stuff I recorded over the past 2
months. Hope 2007 will be definitively erasing 2006 from my mind.

On November 8 I got definitively crazy after having seen usual low
clouds rolling in after a very sunny day, so I packed my scope and I
drove far away my home.
At the end, I arrived at the top of Amiata mount, southern Tuscany, 280
km far away!
I could have a cristal clear and almost steady sky. An annoying
directional stream caused an image elongation toward NW which I
partially corrected by convolving an artificial PSF along that direction
and then deconvolving the image using that PSF image.
The improvement was huge, maybe I’d have trashed anything without that
processing!

Find here my useful images I captured over that crazy session driving
lonely for 560 km in the heart of the night.

Snellius & Petavius - Note the extremely rough Petavius floor under a
very low sun angle:
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/snellius-petavius20061108_lazz.jpg

Taruntius and environs:
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/taruntius20061108_lazz.jpg

Jansen crater and rille and environs - In this high sun angle image you
can also see Plinius (top-left corner), Vitruvius (top-right corner) and
Carrel (bottom-left) craters:
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/jansen20061108_lazz.jpg

Cleomedes crater:
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/cleomedes20061108_lazz.jpg

Janssen crater:
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/janssen20061108_lazz.jpg

As you maybe noticed, I always used an extremely thin number of frames,
so the processing was critical as well.