Hello,
Because late is better than never mind, I could finally take my very first Saturn image of the season a few nights ago.
This was also my first attempt with my new Gladius 400, but the focal lenght (roughly 14 meters!) was too far excessive for that night with low transparency and clouds everywhere. I couldn’t get it shorter before of the clouds rolling in…
As a consequence, the exposure was extremely slow (1/8th a sec!) and washed out some decent stability occurred on that night.
Manual hand picking of the frames.

Nothing to report on Saturn disc at these longitudes.

More to follow (not sure…).

Hello,
This image is displaying some lonely mountains dividing mare Imbrium (on the east side) from Oceanum Procellarium (on the west side).
Find Harbinger mons in the low-left corner, Delisle mons in the middle-right and the two Gruithuisen peaks on the top side.
The dark halo in the bottom-right corner is caused by dust.

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Hello,
Looking a bit westward, we can find our friend Schiller sitting on the top-right edge of a possible ancient multi-ring basin 2 times bigger than Schiller itself!
Who knows whether this is an illusion or not…

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Hello,
On Sept. 30 I had another lunar session under good to very good seeing at times and excellent transparency thanks to the 1200 meters elevation.
Sadly, that eve the Moon was quite low above the horizon (just 37 degs, close to Jupiter), quite far away from Earth (next to the apogee) and I also got a serious problem with the driver of my exp’l camera which caused some big problem with final resolution.
Find here a classical view of the South Pole from Clavius to Moretus under high sun angle.

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Hello,
Find here my last image taken on August.
Mediocre seeing, expecially with the bottom frame.
Mare Humorum with a favourable libration:

More to follow with another interesting early fall lunar collection.
Thank you for your attention so far.

Hello,
Yet another image out of August 2009!
An usual and classic vista on the Aristarchus plateau.

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Greeting everybody,
Forgive my title which is quite self speaking about the neverending cloudy sky I’m experiencing here!
Let’s go ahead.

Cirrus there in the western shore of Procellarum should own to Olbers crater ejecta showned a couple of days ago. It’s too bad the 2 images couldn’t be composed together!
To be also noticed the Krafft catena “linking” craters Krafft (above) to Cardanus (bottom, partially visible).
The nice crater on the top-right corner is Seleucus while on its left we can see the big and half flooded Eddington crater.

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Hi all,
Back to a lunar area portrayed with an unfamiliar illumination.
Here we can see the far western side of our satellite with Reiner gamma (on the right), Cavalerius (on the bottom-center) and Olbers (on the left) whose nice ejecta will be better visible along my next image with the northern part of the Oceanum Procellarium.

Notice that weird white river flowing out Reiner Gamma and crossing Marius Hills on the top-right corner of the image.
More to follow.

Hello,

Today’s image is showing a very nice area despite its very ugly name: Marsh of Pestilence!
Geologists would go further and pay attention to the several treasures here displayed as the nice concentric crater Marth dead center in the marsh, the dome rising in Capuanus crater very close to the shadow line, Ramsden rille system, those 3 dotted segments running on the left side of Elger crater and (best visibile in the stretched view), the radial structure on the left side of Cichus crater filled with shadow and the megadome on the right side of Mercator crater with Kies Pi dome a while above it.

PALUS EPIDEMIARUM

Hope this image could be of nice interest.
More to follow.

Hi all,
On the following morning, I had another early wake up and another nice walk on the Moon!
Find here the Sinus Iridum once again with a lower sun angle which is putting on more evidence those lava flows similar to sea waves breaking into the Rainbow inlet.

SINUS IRIDUM

More to follow.