We have written about Alan Friedman's spectacular work with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras before in this blog. Again, with his latest published image, he illustrates the kind of extremely professional results, which are possible with our cameras.

Over at LPOD, the following image has been uploaded. Using a DMK 41BF02 FireWire camera, Alan stitched two images together, each with 200 frames (from a stream of 900).

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Chuck Wood, the site's moderator, commentates the photo:

Ho hum, another exquisite image of Sinus Iridum. I want to use it for LPOD so I'll have to find something new to say[...] Wait, what is that thin line near top right between the west end of the Straight Range and the isolated peak? A little Photoshop unsharp mask and voila - see the dark inset at bottom right! There is definitely a squiggly interrupted line with short shadows cast on the left and slightly bright edges on the right, indicating a depression. It looks like a very closely spaced crater chain, previously unknown, I think. To check, the brighter insert is from Lunar Orbiter IV (from the seamless mosaic of Map-A-Planet). The upper part of the chain, near shore, is definitely a secondary crater chain cluster. But the bottom part doesn't show as chain on the Orbiter image, in fact there is hardly anything there at all at that magnification. But blow up the Orbiter image and there is a very narrow sinuous rille! It starts near the eastern side of the Prom. Laplace, wanders pass the isolated peak, crosses the mare ridge, and abruptly turns south and disappears. Comparison to the nearby 11 km wide Laplace D crater shows that this sinuous rille is about 500 m wide. Not bad for a 10″ Mak in Buffalo! More about the rille tomorrow.