First Luna DMK shot

[iceman]

Seeing was atrocious last night, 1/10 if I was lucky. I tried RGB imaging on Jupiter, but was sorely disappointed at the fuzzball I saw.

I reduced focal length until I ended up using a 2x barlow on the moon to compensate for the poor seeing.

Here's the result of the effort. A 3-image mosaic centered on Clavius, with Moretus in frame above and left, and tycho down below to the right.

The image was taken at 30fps, which sometimes works and most of the time doesn't. But I've got a routine to switch between pause/stop until I get the preview showing, and then I can start recording. Frustrating, but it'll do for now.

10" dob on EQ platform
DMK21AF04 with baader IR block
30fps for 1 minute on each of the 3 areas. Approx 60 frames of each avi stacked, joined together in photoshop, then LR deconvolution in AstraImage, and then save to web.

Pretty happy with the results considering the seeing, and not a bad first luna light for the DMK.

Thanks for looking.

[Dennis]

Gee Mike, that's a darned good mosaic for the conditions. :thumbsup:

Hmm, with a birthday coming up, I'll have to drop some heavy DMK hints to my darling wife. :whistle: :rolleyes:

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

bit ordinary Mike, where is the lander:eyepop: :P

[RB]

Oh my gosh, look at the detail.........:eyepop:
Mike I'm speachless !

[ving]

The seeing was bad wasnt it!

nice effort :)

[asimov]

:thumbsup: Very nice!

[iceman]

Thanks guys

I also forgot to mention I did MAP processing on each of the 3 images - that is, I aligned and processed on 2 spots on each avi. I could've aligned on more but didn't want to spend too much time on the data today, i'll try again tonight as the jetstream looks a bit better.

[gbeal]

How you do that??? MAP I mean? This part of Regi?

[Striker]

Nice one Mike or should I say nice mozaic....the camera is looking good

[ving]

how does one align on 2 spots?

[iceman]

The new version of registax (currently beta, which I don't have :bashcomp: ) will allow you to align on multiple points at once.. registax will then go through and align on those multiple points and blend them together at the stacking stage.

But in my case, it's simply manual MAP (multiple alignment point) processing. I ran through registax aligned on one feature, saved the image, opened the avi again and ran through aligned on a different feature, saved that image.

I took them into photoshop and copied one image on top of the other as a layer, lined them up, and deleted the blurry parts to show the sharp parts from the layer beneath.

It's becoming a common way of processing lunar images because of the scale of them, and the "wavey" type of seeing you get where in a single frame you can have one part of the image sharp but the other part not sharp. This way you align on multiple areas which will end up with the sharpest image of THAT area.

You then just need to join them all together in photoshop.

It'll be much better when registax can do it by default, as long as it does it well.

[asimov]

Mike, it looks to me like you had the gamma way up, is this correct?

Thats what I did in my last lot of lunar shots; 75% gamma & I think it was 30% gain.

[iceman]

It's different on the DMK, asi. I had gamma set to "12" whatever that means. It goes from 10-20, but if you go over about 14 it really makes the image look ghastly (my new favourite word thanks to Bert :P )

I had gain set to about 50% I think.

[ving]

hmm... i tried a moon shot last night (not yet processed ). i might have to review my settings :)

[asimov]

Thanks mate.

[fringe_dweller]

:eyepop: Nice one Ice, Ice, Moonage!

being very new to pc myself (have only just downloaded registax now), how come ppl with other expensive proggies still use registax for a lot of stacking stuff? is it a 'different horses for different courses' type of thing? :shrug:
cheers

[sheeny]

Very nice Mike!:thumbsup:

Al.

[hevelsky]

:thumbsup: Fantastic Mike !!! :eyepop:

[seeker372011]

very nice image Mike.You know I feel it has some sort of weird 3 D effect that works very well

The moon can be such a difficult-but rewarding if well done-target.

[iceman]

Thanks guys.

Kearn, registax is still the best (and one of the only) image stacking programs out there, that's why people still use it :)

[fringe_dweller]

thanks Mike! :) just reading your tutorial now :thumbsup:

[beren]

Wow thats really nice, top visual effect with the angle feels like your in orbit....sharp across the board too well done

[iceman]

Thanks Stuart, appreciate the feedback.

Here's a reprocessed version of that mosaic, generally sharpened up with better contrast and more details popping out.

[RB]

My eyes are popping out......:eyepop: