Hi all
This image is my biggest mosaic project ever! A hi-res mosaic made up from 19 avi's, aligned on over 150 alignment points!
Unfortunately there's some large holes in the mosaic, and some unusual angles thanks to platform resets (field rotation). It would've been quite something if the middle area was captured as well.
There's loads to see, including the straight wall (Rupes Recta), Rima Bert, Arzachel, Alphonsus and the Davey Crater Chain.
The data was captured on the night of the 1st October, with the moon directly overhead. Seeing was good to very good - at the beginning (6:30pm local time), it was around 7/10 but by the time I finished (7:30pm) it deteriorated to about 5/10.
I used my usual 10" dob on EQ platform, 5x powermate + DMK21AF04 + Astronomiks Red filter.
Registax was used for alignment and stacking, Photoshop for making the mosaic, and AstraImage and Photoshop for deconvolution and high pass filtering.
It's my best image of this region and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
The attached image is shrunken low-res - please download the full version (higher res 2000px x 1800px, better quality):
Download full-size image (450k jpeg)
Thanks for looking! Comments more than welcome.