The lens was removed and a standard webcam adapter was screwed in place of the lens. The camera, as yet unmounted was placed at the prime focus of a 127mm Maksutov scope:
The camera was powered by a 12 volt adapter and the composite video output was connected to a domestic DVD recorder, set to High Quality. A 7 inch TV monitor was connected to the output of the DVD recorder. Below is the live view from the monitor when the scope was aimed at, and tracked the Moon:
The video stream produced by the camera was recorded to a recordable DVD disk, and later, the BMP images were extracted from the VOB (video object files) on the disk using Ian Davies's VOB extractor software.
1500 video frames were stacked in Registax 5 to produce the following image, which was de-interlaced and post-processed in Photoshop:
The Aspect Ratios were corrected using Nicola Mackin's AR-Corrector software
Rupes altai, Mare Nectaris, craters Piccolomini, Catharina, Cyrillus and Theophilus
Aspect Ratio Corrected
Similarly, another two images were extracted from the DVD:
Lunar Apennines
Aspect Ratio Corrected
Craters Herschel, Ptolomaeus, Alphonsus, Alpetragius, Arzachel, Albertegnius with Rupes Recta at the bottom of the image.
Aspect Ratio Corrected
More details will be put in this blog entry very soon. The camera will be mounted in a protective project box and more details will be posted on the resulting images.
