Crater Hortensius domes pictures

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Image on the left has faint diagonal lines, making the whole image look noisy. I tried to fix this in the image on the right. (Small than 17 inch computer screens will show these images one below the other )

crater Hortensius domes

Date: 11 July 2004 Telescope: 10 inch SCT 1500 frames captured with Astrosnap
Time: 08:30 am (GMT + 2h00) Webcam: Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 Processing: 500 of 1500 frames selected
Observatory: Hartbeespoort - South Africa Magnification: 2x Meade Barlow (f/20) Software: K3CCDTools and Photoshop
Sun altitude as seen from Hortensius: 12.5 deg.Moon phase (age): 23d 8h Moon altitude above horizon: 48 deg.


Compressed (for fast Internet loading) webcam photo of the domes near the crater Hortensius with labels. The crater Hortensius is 14 kilometers in diameter.


Here is the best raw webcam frame of Hortensius. 1500 frames were captured during 3 minutes.


500 stacked webcam frames - before sharpening is done.


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