Hi all,

After a long wait, finally a decent night for the Moon imaging happened
on April 4th.
Seeing was fair to good together with a good transparency, a very rare
evenience here!

This was the last useful night I spent home before of packing my scope
for the mission to Bangkok.

http://www.lazzarotti-optics.com/images/theophilus-cyrillus20060404_1826_lazz.jpg

More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.

–
Ad astra per semper.

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eng. Paolo R. Lazzarotti

http://www.astromeccanica.it
Italian High Quality Astro Instruments

http://www.paololazzarotti.com
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Hi all,

Here another image out from Dec. 27 session with a well known area.

I notice for the first time a subtle linear texture about 20 degs tilted
respect to the horizontal line in the Theophilus upper-right wall, can
you see that?

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/theophilus-cyrillus20061227_lazz.jpg

More to follow.

Hi all,

On Dec. 27 I had a fair lunar session in southern Tuscany.
Find here a close-up shot with Posidonius:

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/posidonius20061227_lazz.jpg

More to follow.

Hi all,

Here the last image out of the Dec. 12 session.
The 3 main craters in the scene are in memory of 3 greek philosophers:
Philolaus on the middle-left, Anaxogoras and Epigenes on the right side
filled with shadow.

Notice that sort of big valley crossing Philolaus and Anaxagoras area
with a very rough floor ending up smoothly in Fontenelle proximity. It
caught my attention when moving my scope along the limb, I was surprised
to know it’s a nameless feature!

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/philolaus-anaxagoras-epigenes20061212_lazz.jpg

Later on February the remaining 2 sessions with some better images.
It’s now time to fly off Florida’s Winter Star Prty!

Hi all,

Find here another image from Dec. 12 lunar session.
I could have an almost decent seeing when the Sun was at the horizon.
Very bright sky when grabbing.

Notice Copernicus ejecta all way around the sinus and the craterlets
“open cluster” just below Eratostenes.

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/sinusaestuum20061212_lazz.jpg

More to follow.

Hi all,

In my neverending war against the turbulence I gave a new weapon a try
and I was succesful!
For my very first time, I used a subtractive CMY filter set by Edmund
Optics to get the exposure lowered and the framerate increased at the
same time by a conspicuos factor 2 respect to the RGB filter set!

I was amazed by the result, expecially if I consider the planet was
placed in the Full Moon galore (a less than full disc away from the
lunar limb only) and visually the look was VERY poor due to the strong
turbulence.

Nothing of particular was noted on the disc.
The image may look as a tad overprocessed: I’ve also a new and wonderful
LCD 19″ monitor which is simply merciless with any image defect. Hope to
improve as soon my results with this interesting filter set.

Hi all,

On December 12, 2006 I had the session no. 2 out of 4 (the only one with
the waning Moon at sunrise) I could have over that month. But it was the
worst one about the seeing, just fair at its best.

Find here a wide image showing the Sinus Medii at the center, the nice
couple Murchison-Pallas and Triesnecker at the top, Flammarion (on the
left) with Oppolzer (and the rille) at the bottom-right.

Notice the sweet hilly area at the top-left corner of the image and the
waved floor in Triesnecker area.

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/sinusmedii20061212_lazz.jpg

More to follow.