The conditions this month have been very poor so not able to produce any decent high-res lunar closeups but instead I thought I'd try a wider view. I present a 3-Panel mosaic of the moon at 96% illumination. This is the first time I've attempted a lunar mosaic so a little trial and error involved.
Captured with ASICAP 4ms exposures, 100gain, my c14 non-edge and the imaging train I usually use for deep-space astrophotography using the 0.7x reducer and asi2600mc camera. Not ideal combo for fine detail but given the conditions and my inexperience I wanted to keep things simple with less panels.
Processed in AS!4, Registax6, mosaic with ICE, and some post-processing in PI & LR to boost contrast and saturation. I think the mineral colour saturation boost provides a much more interesting image on a full moon as otherwise it all looks a bit flat imho.
Obviously the end product was a massive Tiff file (over 300mb) and the jpg looses a fair bit of detail (let alone the tiny IIS 200kb version).
Please check out the larger version here...
Happy for suggestions / comments! Thanks for looking