Copernicus crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Copernicus is for sure one of the most photographed craters on the moon, 93 Km of diameter has ‘only’ 800 million years old. The central peak is only 1.3Km and is one of the most studied create by the NASA.

Astronomy, Moon

Tycho crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Tycho is a small crater of 85Km in the south of the moon, The central mountain is taller than 2Km, some interesting details of the elevation can be found here

Astronomy, Moon

Clavius crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Clavius is for sure one of the most photographed subjects on the moon, 230Km of diameter it is dedicated to Christopher Clavius a mathematician of XV century. It appears stretched due to his meridian position and it is one of the oldest know craters.

Astronomy, Moon

Moon panorama

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

An unusual good night, this panel was composed by 3 shoots each of 15K frames. Only the 20% of the frames was selected.

Many famous crater are visible, the are was between Mare cognitum , Mare vaporum and Mare Ibrium. In the middle the beautiful Montes Apenninus with the Erathostenes, Archimedes and Manilus craters. In the bottom Plato crater.

Astronomy, Deep Sky

M42 – close up

January 9, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Started as a stunning night, but after a couple of hours, it began to cloud over. Anyway it was a good surprise to see the result of these shoots because the scope was unguided, the total drift can be honestly improved. No flat, bias and dark was taken

Location: Ghiro observatory
Instrument: Enewton2 (unguided)
Camera: ZWO ASI290MM
Filter: ZWO Filter Set L-RGB per ASI 1600 MM
Processing: Autostakkert, Iris, Photoshop
240 X 1sec (each channel)
Total integration 12min