Hi all
This data was captured on Sunday 21st October 2007, and has taken me most of the week to process. The seeing wasn't quite up to long focal length imaging, so I reduced the scale (to the 2x barlow) and captured a wide area around Plato.
The image is made up from 11 avi's, and like almost all of my mosaics, I missed a piece
Glad I don't do jigsaw puzzles
Each avi had MAP processing (some auto, some manual), with around 250-300 frames stacked for each alignment point. The pieces were assembled in Photoshop, before being taken to AstraImage for deconvolution and back to Photoshop for final touchups (levels, curves, noise reduction).
12" newt on EQ6, 2x barlow + DMK21AF04 + Astronomik R filter.
Please click the link below to see the full version (< 1 meg) - it's too large to upload as an attachment.
Mosaic of the Greek Philosophers - Plato through to Aristoteles and up to Archimedes (~980kb)
Make sure you expand your browser to see the full version.
Thanks