On 5th April a Waxing Moon (32%) looked very picturesque in the North-West, some 30 degrees above the horizon so I dragged out the ‘scope and grabbed a series of 14 AVI’s as the Moon headed downwards, hoping that I had sufficient overlapping coverage to complete a mosaic.
The AVI’s were recorded between 6:50 and 7:21pm, with the Moon’s altitude decreasing from 30º to 26º. The seeing was quite good despite the lowish altitude, enough to support the native focal length of the Mewlon at 2160mm. It was a bit of a hectic rush to grab the series before the Moon sunk too low into the murky Brisbane skies.
I punched all the AVI’s through AutoStakkert2! (a fantastic program) and then assembled the mosaic in CS6. Here is a sample of what I have processed so far.
The two panel image shows Mare Crisium, Mare Fecunditatis; craters Langrenus, Messier A & B with Mare Smythii at the eastern edge of the lunar limb.
Here is the
link to the full size mosaic (5302x2768) at 1.2 MB
Cheers
Dennis