Moon pictures - Immagini della luna

The moon on July 5, 2003 on a Newton 114/900 at 36x (K 25 mm eyepiece). Afocal with Pentax EI-200 at 600x800 pixels, then cropped and rotated 180°. Image taken at 1/250 sec. without tracking.
Move the mouse on the Moon surface to see the names of some lunar features

Later on July 5, 2003 on a Newton 114/900 at 45x (H 20 mm eyepiece). Afocal with Pentax EI-200 at 1200x1600 pixels, then cropped and rotated 180°. Image taken at 1/250 sec. without tracking. Click on the picture for a full size view. Note the red artifacts near the terminator. Also, perhaps the focus here is not perfect.

The moon on August 9, 2003 on a Maksutov-Cassegrain 127/1500 at 60x (LE 25 mm eyepiece). Afocal with Pentax EI-200 at 800x600, then rotated and scaled for this site. Image taken at 1/250 sec. with RA tracking.
Clearly visible Mare Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis on the right side and the very big crater Copernicus on the left.

The moon on July 24, 2004 on a Maksutov-Cassegrain 127/1500 and a Philips ToUcam II webcam. 30 seconds AVI movie, processed with Registax (best 35 pictures selected and stacked, plus wavelet processing). Each pixel in these pictures represent about 2 km on the Moon soil.
Move the mouse through the picture to see features' names.

The moon on July 24, 2004 (same conditions as above).
The zone of craters Hipparchus and Albategnius.

The moon on July 24, 2004 (same conditions as above).
Southern pole region, eastern part up to the terminator.

The moon on July 24, 2004 (same conditions as above).
South-eastern part of the moon.

The moon on April 28, 2007 with a Pentax K100D at the focus of a Matsukov-Cassegrain 127/1500. The original picture is 3008x2000 pixels (1/125 sec. at ISO 1600), transformed to black and white, cropped and scaled to show Mare Tranquillitatis.
Click on the picture to see it full size (cropped but not scaled).

Same setup as above. Eastern hemisphere of the moon, without any color correction (1/125 sec. ISO 1600), cropped and scaled.

Same setup as above. South pole region (1/15 sec. ISO 400), cropped and scaled.

Same setup as above. Full size crop from the south pole picture (1/15 sec. ISO 400).

Same setup as above. Crater Copernicus (1/20 sec. ISO 400).

Same setup as above. Crater Copernicus (1/30 sec. ISO 400), gamma corrected.