Moon close-up 16-dec

[blueskies123_89]

Hi everyone,

This is one of my first mosaics of the moon. I took it on the night of the 16th. It is a mosaic of the southern lunar highlands.

I took 3min (~5500 frames) of video per stamp. Avistack was used to stack the best 1000 frames. It was stitched together in Photoshop.

http://www.pbase.com/gzhou_astrophotography/image/131239322

Thanks for looking,
Cheers

[rogerg]

That's really quite nice, I like that. :thumbsup:

[michaellxv]

Very nice work, they have come together really well.

[duncan]

Yep excellent work. Very pleasing tomlook at.:thumbsup:

[Liz]

Very nice indeed George, especially like the bottom half of image, craters look great. :thumbsup:

[blueskies123_89]

Thanks guys



Cheers Liz. The seeing progressively got worse as I took the lower half frames. So was much more aggressive with deconvolution on them than the top half. I will try to redo more deconvolution on the top frames sometime later.

[jjjnettie]

Wow, I wish I could get that sort of detail.
Thanks for posting.

[suma126]

excellent work i must buy myself a 5x Barlow.

[Matt Wastell]

Hey George that is a super mosaic - really well done!!!!

[Troy]

Plenty of craters. Nice picture George :)