Lunar Mosaic

[CapturingTheNight]

Hi all,

This is the first time I have tried stitching together a picture of The Moon. Made from 16 individual images. The full res version is 10,000 pixels wide. Not entirely happy with a couple of areas of it. I'll try this again another night (knowing what I do now) and if I get better results I'll upload a full high res version somewhere so that you can look at it in greater detail.

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23/09/2012
Canon 60D
10" F/4 Newtonian Telescope
8-24mm Baader Hyperion Eyepiece at 8mm
NEQ6 Pro Goto Telescope Mount

Cheers

Greg

[multiweb]

That looks super sharp Greg. Very nice work. How did you stitch the whole thing?

[EagleEyes]

Awesome pic!

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Greg - that is a super image - looking forward to more of your mosaics!

[iceman]

Looks great to me!

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Marc :D Stuck all the images in PTGui Pro and it just spat out this. I didn't need to manually align anything. Then just some slight contrast and sharpening in PS.

Thank you very much Andy :D

Thank you very much Matt :D Just need to setup the telescope more often instead of just grabbing my camera and tripod....

Thanks Mike :D I'm very happy with the stitching of the images, but there are a couple of blurry sections where the quality of the sub frame wasn't the best. The biggest issue I had was because I was using the EP instead of my normal prime focus with a MPCC I had massive coma around the edges of the frame due to the fast optics of my newt. This meant only the central portion of the field was in good "focus". I tried to allow for this while imaging but I must have missed a few spots. Much more evident at full size.

[Star Catcher]

Very nicely done and I like the handling of dynamic range.
Ted

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Ted :D