Rough Old Lunar Mosaic May 6

[sheeny (Al)]

Looking through the pictures I captured on Saturday night, I thought some might join up into som small mosaics / panoramas... well, here's 10 that overlapped! The mosaic is pretty rough, since it wasn't planned, and unfortunately one of the images is a different exposure to the rest (I'm not sure why... ).

But anyway for what it's worth I joined this up covering almost all the near terminator region.

Captured with Toucam at prime focus of the C8 with K3CCDTools. Stacked in registax. Merged into the mosaic in PC CS2 and saved for the web at 50% quality and 65% size to get the file size down. No other processing.

When I get a bit of time I should fiddle with the dark image to get it to balance the rest and do it again!

Al.

[Lester]

Exceptional Al,

You might call that rough, but I love the detail.

How many frames did you capture for each avi?

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Wow. That's a fine mosaic Al. Give Autostitch a go. It can sometimes blend in the unequal exposures.


You didn't leave a check box ticked in the settings dialogue box somewhere, like auto exposure or white balance?

[allan gould]

That is lovely. Great shot

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice, would look even better with a black background (rather than white).

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks Guys.

I don't think it was a capture problem. I think something funny happened when I was processing in registax... it happened on a couple of other avis as well.

Yes you are right Mike! It would look a lot better with a black background. I just slapped it together really! I will have another go at this one, both in autostitch (I think I have it on the lappy) and by reprocessing the offending avi... and I'll rotate it to make it a panorama type layout with black background when I'm happy with it.

...but it won't be tonight! Clear skies, and a newly arrived 2.5x Powermate and 13mm Nagler are suggesting to me the serious need to get out in the field and observe! They put up such a strong argument... it's hard to object...

Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

I lied!

Here's the AutoStitch version at least... complete with automatic black background, and exposure compensation.

Interestingly the final image is under half size of the original one I did - only 1400 pixels wide compared with over 3000. I suppose there's settings in autostitch to change that if I took the time to look! This is only the second time I've played with it... I'm impressed with the way it handles exposure variation!

Very quick and painless!

Al.

[iceman (Mike)]

Stunning!

And yes, in autostitch go to edit->options, and you can specift 100% as the final size, and 100% as the jpeg setting.

Great work.

[Robert_T]

Sheeny that's a beautiful lunar vista if I ever saw one - magic

must learn how to do this joining things together stuff... another area of imaging on which I'm challenged

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks Mike!

And Robert... you will probably be surprised just how easy it (mosaics and panoramas) is with the right software!

Al.