Patrick wrote:

Kurt, do you have a camera and computer that meets your specs or will we need to look around?

Any of your high-end SBIGs are fine.  The current camera axe of choice amongst the best lunar imagers appears to be an Infinity 2M. Those are too pricey for my tastes, so a month ago, I bought the hot lunar imaging camera from two or three years ago, the ImageSource DMK A3US. But I recommend you use your existing SBIG and your computer.  I am happy to bring out the ImageSource to do a comparison on results. With the Andy it is unlikely you will be unable to replicate the results the best lunar imagers due to tracking.  Although you can use equivalent camera gear, their "sub-kilometer" feature results are in part due to high accuracy auto-guiding on lunar targets.  They capture about 3 to 5 minutes of video, depending on seeing.  Registax is no longer the tool of choice.  The best lunar imagers have moved to AviStack - which auto-generates several hundred registration control points per control image. But it is the tracking that gets the pixels to be consistent from frame to frame - resulting in outstanding deconvolution. You can get fine results - and this is the level that I am on - with suboptimal tracking and then using Registax to register the images with a moving target between each frame. If you look closely that work of the best lunar imagers - their wide-fields are not accomplished with DSLRs (although some of these 4M to 8M pixel DSLRs are taking some wonderful lunar widefields).  The best lunar imagers are taking "sub-kilometer" high-magnification frames and then creating a mosaic in Photoshop.  That is how they get a lunar wide-field with exceptional feature crispness across the entire view. All of this beyond my practical skill level, but I follow it and that appears to be the technique used. Another thing about lunar imaging is that it is seasonal. The Moon is high after the autumnal equinox, across the winter solstice, and through the spring equinox.  If you look at the best lunar images, they tend to be taken during those seasons and not during the summer, when the Moon at a lower altitude.   That being said, there are times during the summer when the Moon's position in the eclipitic gives it a high altitude - they are limited to the very earlier morning hours around 4am with the Moon near 3rd quarter. Again, you shouldn't be deterred by any of the cautionary qualifiers that I've listed above.   I'm sure you will be able to take great lunar images with the Andy. Clear Skies and HNY - Kurt