16/07/05 Moon Mosaic

I had to do some squishing to get this one down in size to upload here. Unfortunately it has lost some detail in the transision. I usually like to have a lil space around my images.

8" f/6 newt, LPI
13 image composites of 20 x .004 exp
Gain 96%
Offset 43%

Compiled in PS 7

Warnig: File size is 111.2kb (original is 8mg)

Thoughts and comments most welcome.

As suggested, here is a link to a high res version on my website High Res Version 1.3mg 1478x1042

regards

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful Rob, incredibly detailed and sharp.

You should upload the full size one to another webspace, i'd love to see it.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Rob,

That is the best moon shot I have seen in here by members (sorry to the others!).

Absloutely fantastic!!!! I have printed it out.

[Striker (Tony)]

Great stuff Rob.....I like it a lot.

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Nice one mate! I was also looking at luna on Saturday night and was getting great detail in the wall of Copernicus (sp?) through my dob.

see ya in a couple of weeks!

[h0ughy (David)]

I like that one, how far away were you when you took the picture, lets see you left friday, today is monday, you would have been about 50000K's . Nice detail and sharpness!

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

I would also like to see the full res version if possible

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

That is a brilliant mosaic Rob. Excellent.

You guy's are too kind, Dang! you'll have me out there again imaging our luna friend again tonight lol

As suggested, here is a link to a high res version on my website. I'll re-edit the original post to include it as well. Thank you very much for you kind words. I had lovely weather and she was right over the top of me.

1.3mg (on my bush dialup it took 8 minutes to download, I've kept it at it's original resolution but in .jpg)

1478x1042 you may need to expand the image if your browser auto-resizes images

High Res Version

Enjoy!

Regards

[iceman (Mike)]

It loaded for me in 2 seconds
Great image.

You should try autostitch for mosaic creating, it would be much easier than photoshop/psp.

Hey Mike,

I have auto-stitch but I find it somestimes introduces unwanted artifacts into the image. The manual process allows me to make a seemless merge by working the pieces together in layers. Also the LPI has a nasty habit of being really noisy along one of it's edges. PS allows me to remove this from any of the leading edges in the mosiac. And although I didn't need to with this image, sometimes you need to individually adjust the brightness and contrast.

Actually you can get around having to do that by starting off with the brightest area first and keep shooting with those settings.

Regards, CS

PS: Thats about the only thing I miss out here "Cable"

Originally Posted by astro_south

Nice one mate! I was also looking at luna on Saturday night and was getting great detail in the wall of Copernicus (sp?) through my dob.

see ya in a couple of weeks!

Unfortunately Andrew, it's not looking good. Still having problems with the car will keep you informed.

regards

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Be a shame if you missed it!

Maybe you could squeeze into Houghy's trailer