An intimate session with the moon

davidpretorius · #1 18-09-2005, 12:53 AM

Hi,

spent a lovely 45 minutes taking 5gb (equates 12 minutes) of movies of the moon. Taken at 1/1500 exposure and not much gain,15fps and at prime focus toucam = aprox 200x magnification

seeing was very good, very little boiling effect.

Having seen autostich in action, i am keen to do a mosaic of the moon. ie extract best pics from the moon video and then stich together.

I am so happy, there was no wind to stuff it up.

There were 7 passes done to cover the whole moon.

I will try and compress these videos so i can share them and you can play to your hearts content.

Tried for ngc6388, but clouds kept coming in!

Mars was too low in the sky!

acropolite (Phil) · #2 18-09-2005, 09:12 AM

You must have stayed out a little a later than I did. The moon was very clear tonight, best detail I have seen yet. Tried out my el cheapo ($10) Andrews moon filter, could be a bit darker and I'm wondering why I mine didn't come with a free dob.... With the exception of Rigel Kent I didn't look elsewhere as the moon washed everything out.

davidpretorius · #3 18-09-2005, 07:23 PM

How cool is autostich. i am picking about every 100th photo converting to jpeg and using autostich.

asimov (John) · #4 18-09-2005, 08:15 PM

Hi Dave..Nice image taking shape there! Please explain the advantages of this over one single (hopefully decent) image.

davidpretorius · #5 18-09-2005, 08:38 PM

hi mate,

hopefully i can produce a whole heap of 200X images stuck together, so the resolution will be better than a single shot say at 5X or 10X where to get the image in the field of view lack close up detail!

asimov (John) · #6 18-09-2005, 08:40 PM

AH! I see the point now...Thanks for that!