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Mosaic of 3 images of the Moon this morning. #CFF160, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptel ATR585MM camera. 3 x 60s videos, best ~30% stacked and sharpened with Strata, mosaic stitched with #PixInsight FeatureRegistration script. #astrophotography
Waning crescent Moon. The brightest crater on the Moon (Aristarchus) is at lower left, with Schroeter's valley leading away from it. Above is Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) with its wrinkle ridges.
November 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A mosaic of 16 images of the Moon, stitched together with #PixInsight new Feature Registration script. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek ATR585MM 📷. Captured with #Laminar, batch processed and sharpened with #Strata. #astrophotography
Waning Moon (53%) taken around 4.30am on 2nd November. This is a mosaic of 16 images, each at close to the full resolution of the scope. Aristarchus is the brightest crater in the Moon, upper left, with Copernicus and part of the Apennine mountain range below. Plato is visible as a smooth floored crater near the top of the image.
November 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Slight high cloud in Edinburgh, but still worth getting the #CFF160 🔭 out for some lunar #astrophotography. #Televue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585MM camera. Best 20 - 25% frames, stacked and sharpened in Strata (Mac app).
Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) on the Moon. The bay is in the centre of the image. To the right are a couple of wrinkle ridges, and numerous small craters are visible. The crater Copernicus - a magnificent walled crater, with smaller craters visible nearby. The rayed crater Tycho in the rugged southern uplands of the Moon.
October 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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#saturn imaged from #edinburgh using the #cff160 🔭, a #televue 2.5x powermate and a #zwo 585MC camera. Capture was 4 x 120s videos, with the best 7% frames stacked and sharpened, and then derotated. #astrophotography
October 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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#Saturn imaged from #Edinburgh using the #CFF160 🔭, a #TeleVue 2.5x powermate and a #ZWO 585MC camera. Capture was 4 x 120s videos, with the best 7% frames stacked and sharpened, and then derotated. #astrophotography
Saturn with rings and moons. Moons are boosted in brightness using a mask. The moons are (from left to right): Titan, Tethys, Rhea, and Dione. Enceladus is close to Dione but not visible in this image.
October 18, 2026 at 10:25 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
I stacked 5 further videos of Saturn making 10 x 120s in all. Same details: #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ZWO 585MC camera. By using masks, I was able to boost the brightness of the 5 visible moons without blowing out the planet. #astrophotography
Saturn showing rings and 5 moons (Titan, Tethys, Rhea, Enceladus, Dione)
October 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Saturn from #Edinburgh on 7 Oct. This is a derotated stack of 5 x 120s videos taken with a CFF160 🔭, a #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, and a #ZWO585MC camera. Titan is visible above and to the left of the planet. #astrophotography
Saturn showing the rings with Cassini's division. Titan (one of Saturn's moons) is visible above and to the left of the planet.
October 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Single 60s video of Jupiter this morning. Best 50% frames stacked and sharpened in #astrosurface. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ZWO585MC camera. #astrophotography
Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is coming into view to the left of the planet in the Southern Equatorial Belt. Smaller white ovals visible to the south in the South Temperate Belt. To the North, blue clouds are visible in the North Equatorial Belt.
October 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Clear in #Edinburgh after torrential rain this morning. Got a couple of Moon pictures. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek ATR585MM camera. Best 10% frames from 2 minute video, stacked and sharpened in Strata (Mac app). #astrophotograpy
Southern highlands of the Moon. Tycho is the bright crater upper right. Aristarchus (brightest crater on the Moon) and Schroeter's valley
September 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Up early to let #astrocat out. Took opportunity for quick image of Saturn. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ZWO #ASI585MC camera. Captured with Laminar and processed with Strata, both Mac apps.
Saturn with rings opening
September 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to get hold of a 2nd hand CFF160 about a year ago. I don’t think I’ve used my C9.25 since!
A 160mm refractor waiting for full darkness
September 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Used a brief period of somewhat clear skies in #Edinburgh for some white light #solar imaging. #CFF160 🔭, #Baader Herschel wedge, #Televue 4x Powermate, #Touptek ATR585MM. Processed with Laminar and Strata (Mac apps), coloured with Solar Toolbox in PixInsight. #astrophotography #heliophysics
A zoomed in white light image of the sun showing a complex set of sunspots
August 29, 2026 at 12:23 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Tried some white light imaging of the #Sun. #CFF160 #Televue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono #Baader Herschel wedge. Best 35% of 1500 frames, captured with #Laminar and stacked in #Strata.
Several sunspots in a white light image of the Sun
August 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Woken early by #AstroCat, so took some pictures of waning Moon. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera. Captured with #Laminar (Mac), processed with #Strata (beta) and PixInsight. #astrophotography
Aristarchus and Schroter's valley. Aristarchus is the brightest crater on the Moon Sinus Iridum (bay of rainbows) showing wrinkle ridges Gassendi (upper left) and Mare Humorum.
July 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Another daytime lunar image from last night. Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catherina, with Rupes Altai prominent at the terminator. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera. Processed with #PlanetStackerX #astrophotography.
An image of 3 prominent lunar craters - Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catherina just above the centre of the picture. Slightly to the left of the three craters a bright feature wiggles its way towards the bottom of the picture. This is Rupes Altai, a scarp formed by the impact that created Mare Nectaris.
June 21, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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A more detailed view from Posidonius up to the lunar limb. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek ATR585MM mono camera. Best 250 frames from 2500 frame video, IR pass filter, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface, minor curve edits in PixInsight. #astrophotography
Posidonius is the prominent crater with the fractured floor just below centre and to the left of the image. Above are the prominent craters Atlas (right) and Hercules (left, with crater on floor). Above and to the right is Endymion, and beyond that is Mare Humboldtianum.
June 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
First clear night for ages in Edinburgh. Nearly first quarter Moon taken with #CFF160 🔭, #Touptek ATR585MM camera and IR pass filter. Best 250 frames from 1000 frame video stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography
Nearly first quarter Moon. North is up, Mare Crisium is upper right, with craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catherina prominent on the terminator. Image taken using a mono camera with an IR Pass filter.
June 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Another close up - Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel, with the Rupes Recta just starting to appear. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585mono camera. Best 10% frames from 2500. #astrophotography
Prolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel - the 3 prominent craters from N to S in the centre of the picture. Below and to the left is the Rupes Recta just starting to appear.
May 24, 2026 at 9:43 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A zoom in to two favourite areas on the Moon: Plato and the Alpine Valley, and Hadley Rille. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585m camera. Best 25% frames from 2500 frame video. #astrophotography
Apennine mountains and Hadley Rille (site of Apollo 15 landing). Hadley Rille is visible in the bay near Hadley delta, slightly right of centre in the bottom half of the picture Plato with the crater interior mostly in darkness, and the Alpine Valley. If you zoom in you can see a crater let in Plato just above the shadow of the peak. You can also see some craters in the Alpine Valley.
May 24, 2026 at 9:23 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Clear skies in Edinburgh. The Moon doesn't quite fit in the frame now we're just past first quarter. Lots of detail on the terminator. #CFF160 🔭, #Touptek 585 mono, best 25% frames from 2500. #astrophotography
Moon just past first quarter. The Apennine mountains (site of Apollo 15 landing) are near the top, and the bottom half (southern half) shows numerous craters along the terminator
May 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Clear again in #Edinburgh. Aristarchus and Schroter's Valley at sunrise. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ATR585M camera. Best 5% frames from 5000 frame video, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography
Brightest crater on the Moon - Aristarchus - and Schroter's Valley at sunrise. South up in this photo.
April 28, 2026 at 9:08 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A 3rd clear night in #Edinburgh! Seeing poor, but taking pictures of my favourite areas on the Moon - Plato and Hadley Rille. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera. #astrophotography
Plato is the crater just left of centre, with some small crater lets visible on the dark floor. The Alpine Valley runs up to the centre right, with hints of the central rille visible. Hadley Rille is the small sinuous rille just below and to the right of centre. Apollo 15 landed just to the right of the curve in the rille.
April 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A quick session in #Edinburgh before the Haar (advection fog) rolled in. Apennines with part of Hadley Rille, and Triesnecker and Hyginus Rille. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera. #astrophotography
Sunrise over the Apennine Mountains showing part of Hadley Rille. Rima Fresnel is visible just to the north of Hadley Rille. Further north, in the Caucasus Mountains the Valentine Dome is just east of the prominent isolated peak. Triesnecker is the prominent crater in Sinus Medii, with Hyginus Rille to the north. The two prominent craters to the right of the picture are Agrippa (north) and Godin (south).
April 24, 2026 at 9:13 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Two more Moon images from last night. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25% frames from 1000 frame video, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography
Craters Theophilus (top), Cyrillus, and Catherina. Craters Aristoteles (upper) and Eudoxus (lower), with the start of the Caucusus at bottom left
April 24, 2026 at 9:21 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A couple of images quickly processed tonight. More to come tomorro. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ASI585MC for Jupiter, #Touptek 585M for the Moon/Sea of Tranquillity. Craters Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins are visible. #astrophotography
Jupiter, with the Great Red Spot just coming into view on the left side of the planet. Apollo 11 landing area in the Sea of Tranquillity. The bright crater just above the elevated terrain is Moltke. Above that are 3 craters in almost a straight line, with one just below. The upper 3 are (from R to L) Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin
April 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM