Hi Noel,
No problem , I agree that deconvolution/contrast enhancement may have made it more prominent looking in the final image.
Tycho might be a good candidate alright for the features in question.
Thanks,
Wes Higgins
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- Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:07 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
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- Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
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In order to try and provide an answer to the processing question here is a link to a raw frame of my Moretus image . As can easily be seen in the raw frame the linear features are indeed real geological lunar features, the lighting may be enhancing the linear features to a certain extent though. htt...
- Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:59 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Astronomer's Moon is difficult to believe (APOD 24 Aug 2007)
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APOD Aug 24 is difficult to believe
I really doubt any of the detail shown is real, I have seen the Jupiter image that this was taken with and the detail on Jupiter is not at all on a level you would expect with the sub arc second detail on Ganymede. Extreme enlargement as this image has and then subsequent smoothing can make artifact...