Spectacular Moon Images from Russia

Blogged by Xiao Sun on July 5, 2010 and tagged with Sample Images, Moon.

Dmitry Makolkin is a Russian amateur astronomer located in Moscow. Ever since he was a child, Dmitry has been crazy about astronomy. He was called the "Encyclopedia for children" when he was 10 and started building his first Newton at the age of 16. After graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technique, Dmitry worked in low temperature solid state physics experimental lab of the Institute of Atomic Energy.

Dmitry photographs the night sky with a DMK 31AU03.AS camera.

Here I blog 3 Moon pictures from him. But you can see more by visiting his gallery at http://www.makolkin.ru/Gallery/gallery.html.

Moon Image by Dmitry Makolkin

Original size 3412×4504 pixels

Moon panorama, 1 May 2009. Moon phase: 0.494
Imaging time: 18:51 - 19:29 UT
Scope: TAL-250K
Camera: DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter: Astronomik IR Pro 742nm
Processing: Registax 5, 350/2000
Deconvolution Lucy-Richardson, curves, gamma
Panorama of 23 elements

Moon Image by Dmitry Makolkin

Original size 3800×4800

Moon panorama, 25 March 2010. Moon phase: 0.755
Imaging time: 18:29 - 19:18 UT
Scope: TAL-250K
Camera: DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter: Astronomik IR Pro 742nm
Processing: Registax 5, Avistack, 350/2500
Deconvolution Lucy-Richardson, curves, gamma
Panorama of 30 elements

Moon Image by Dmitry Makolkin

Original size 2375×4402

Moon panorama, 18 April 2010. Moon phase: 0.189
Imaging time: 21:20 - 21:44 MSK (GMT +4)
Scope: TAL-250K
Camera: DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter: Astronomik IR Pro 742nm
Processing: Registax 5, Avistack, 400/2500
Deconvolution Lucy-Richardson, curves, gamma
Panorama of 11 elements

Thank you Dmitry! Incredible pictures!

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