Summer 2013 Lunar photos
During the 2013 Second Summer Session, students in ASTR 105L processed videos of a region of the Moon that they selected. In a later lab, they applied stacking and wavelet processing techniques to refine their results. The stacking program used was AutoStakkert!2, and the processing was done using GIMP 2.8. Here are the final products of their efforts.
All images were shot on 2013-07-17 around 0430 UT from Cerritos College campus, Norwalk, CA. The telescope used was a 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain at f/10. The camera was a Point Grey GigE Flea3 color camera.
Area of the lunar surface near the craters Stevinus and Reichenbach as proceesed by David Medina and Maria Romero; stack of 441 of 800 frames using 31 alignment points.
Montes Caucusus and the craters Alexander (top right) and Calippus (near the center), processed by Daisy Alvarez and Eleazar Romero; stack of 784 of 800 frames using 40 alignment points.
On the left side of the image, the large craters (from top to bottom) are Alphonsus, Alpetragius, and Arzachel, processed by Cesi Gonzalez and Adrian Marin; stack of 519 of 800 frames using 53 alignment points.
In the upper right is the crater Arzachel; the crater Thebit is just below the center of the frame, and the Straight Wall is to the left of the frame; processed by Gary Crosby III, J. Celida Sanchez-Bernal, and Simone Young; 653 of 800 frames and 30 alignment points.
The crater Maginus and surrounding area as processed by Raquel Lemus and Carla Rodriguez; 113 of 800 frames, using 29 alignment points.
In the above image, we are looking toward the south pole of the Moon. Moretus is the large crater to the left of the center. Processed by DeAna Gallardo, Nicole N. Garrido, and Nicolas Navarro; 539 out of 800 frames, using 40 alignment points.
The crater Plato dominates this image processed by Gesselle Arevalo and Jacob Quiroz. A portion of Mare Frigoris is visible to the top right, and the Montes Alpes are down and to the right of Plato; 416 out of 800 frames, using 24 alignment points.
The crater Tycho is the most prevalent feature in this highly cratered region of the Moon near the terminator, as processed by Dayana Cruz and Christopher Rodriguez; 503 out of 800 frames, using 30 alignment points.
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