Moon Partial Eclipse June 4, 2012 *Added STILL HIGH-RES shots *

[multiweb]

This (https://vimeo.com/43883583)was shot in intervals of 30s with a SONY NEX-5 Wednesday night from my backyard. Not used to process and register moon shots but it didn't turn out too bad. Enjoy the view. :thumbsup:

PS: Here's a couple of stacks (https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=6930D3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%21863#cid=6930D 3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%211210)I did in registax 6.

[mithrandir]

Marc, I agree. Trying to register moon shots is hard work. I have tried to do the same with my 2 min interval partial eclipse shots and yours is smoother.

Registax did not seem to want to know about multi-MB images so I had to do it by hand.

[h0ughy]

hey thats pretty cool - like the result!

[Troy]

Good animation Marc 8-)

[LucasB]

That is very enjoyable to watch. Great stuff! :thumbsup:
Lucas

[multiweb]

I tried a frew things: registax ^, AVIStack, a batch action in PS with the load into layers script and auto align. None of them worked. I ended up running an FFT align script in PixInsight that seemed to align 99% of the subs correctly. The ones with poor details due to seeing weren't registered so I moved them manually in PS. Here's my flow for this one:

1_ Load all RAW SONY files in LR Timelapse and Lightroom 4 to work out color balance, saturation, luminosity, levels, etc...

2_ Export all subs from Lightroom to scaled 16bit TIFF files.

3_ Run FFTRegistration.js in PixInsight. Edit line 756 to the following:

outputPath = this.outputDirectory + name + ".TIFF";

This will out put 16bit TIFF files instead of FIT files.

4_ Load all the resulting registered frames in AE or Premiere to output to H.264/Vimeo HD format.



Thanks David. Glad you liked it :thumbsup:

Thanks Troy. :thumbsup:

Thanks a lot Lucas. :thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Marc
The animation is great - the stills are awesome! Congratulations!!!

[multiweb]

Thanks mate. :thumbsup: I can now see the advantage of using a video as input rather than still frames spaced out in times. Some shots are very crisp and other very blurry. My DMK has a very narrow FOV though so to get the full moon I might have to use a lens rather than a telescope.

[firstlight]

Great animation and images.

[multiweb]

Thanks a lot Tony. :thumbsup: