(Most of a) Lunar Mosaic

[iceman (Mike)]

Hey guys.

Since the discovery of this amazing autostitch program, it gave me incentive to process some avi's that I took back on the 1st Feb 2005.

I'd already processed and posted the partial lunar mosaic taken on the same night; the difference is, those ones back then were with my 2x barlow @ 2500mm FL. The ones I processed today were at prime focus (1250mm FL) and there was so many avi's I just wasn't inspired to process them until autostitch came along. The thought of manually stitching together all the images didn't excite me.

Anyway here's the result of this mornings processing work - 35 avi's, created 35 tiff's, coverted into 35 jpegs, fed through autostitch and 4 minutes later, out popped this.

Unfortunately I missed capturing a few small areas.. oh well, next time!

Details (as best as I can remember):
- Captured: 1st Feb 2005, processed today
- 10" dob (no tracking) with ToUcam @ 1250mm FL (prime)
- Seeing 7-8/10
- 10fps
- 35 frame mosaic

Click here for the full size (400k)

Click here for the medium size (200k)

Below is the full reduced shot.



Comments welcome!

[rumples riot]

Nice image Mike, very crisp and clear. I like the darkness to the maria, gives a real indication of the size of the impact basins.

[xelasnave]

Now I understand why you waited as I asked in the above post. These are fantastic, so sharp and the details excellent job...
alex

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Wow that s pretty cool

[toetoe (Peter)]

That pic has such great detail.

Looks like someone with their leg in a cast has stuck it in front of the camera...LOL. nice but.

[iceman (Mike)]

haha yeh, that's what really happened

Thanks for the comments.

[Jonathan]

Good work Mike, it's a shame you didn't get all of it.

[ving (David)]

if it wasnt forthe whopping great hole i'd say try and get it in a mag!.... or maybe do it anyhow...