Some moon shots from last night.

Here is a large moon mosaic from Monday night/Sunday morning, This is 60 images captured over about 2 hours or so. The telescope is an 8" SCT and the camera is an imaging source dbk21.



All 60 images were stacked and processed the same way. I had planned to do the whole moon but ran out of time and disk space!. Also I began to lose track of the areas I had already covered and began to overlap the captures too much. I could probably have gotten the same data in 45-50 frames or so if I planned them out better.

Full post here:
www.astrobin.com/61293/B/

Fantastic details! Mosaic by hand again?? If so, do you follow a specific tutorial?

jmckeon wrote: Here is a large moon mosaic from Monday night/Sunday morning, This is 60 images captured over about 2 hours or so. The telescope is an 8" SCT and the camera is an imaging source dbk21.

All 60 images were stacked and processed the same way. I had planned to do the whole moon but ran out of time and disk space!. Also I began to lose track of the areas I had already covered and began to overlap the captures too much. I could probably have gotten the same data in 45-50 frames or so if I planned them out better.

Full post here:
www.astrobin.com/61293/B/

That is class imaging great detail.

wow, that's an awesome detailed image, superb contrast.
an exercise in patience and perseverance aswell !

Thanks! When the same phase comes around again I might get the other half.

Yes by hand. I have no real tutorial. All I do is to decide on a system for capturing the sections in order. So I started at the south west edge of the moon and then started going up around the edge, each file capture name just going up one number. Then when I reach the north east I move in and down again. So basically up and down across the moon making sure to overlap the captures about 20%. Then I just processed each file in As!2 and registax and pasted them into photoshop in order of file name, because they were named in order it was easy to assemble them.