Close up and personal with the moon

[TechnoBill]

Hi All
I dont normally do the moon, but back in september I took a 58 panel panorama using my 12"Lx200 R and a DMK 41 mono camera.
At the time I could not get the thing to stack. I had all sorts of issues with the different programs I tried .
I recently upgraded to a new PC with more processing power and lots more ram, tried again and managed to get it to knit together.

The image is too big to post here its 6500 x 6500. so its the equivelent of a 42mega pixel camera I gues :-)
The resulting tif was 126mb which might be too big for most people to even bother.Due to its dimensions its too big to post here.
I have two heavilly jpeg compressed versions on my web site, they still look OK.
The full size image is about 1.2mb
http://www.billd.net/images/stories/...FULL_Moon1.jpg
This second link is to a little 2000x2000 200k version
http://www.billd.net/images/stories/...Moon-Small.jpg

Depending on your browser when you click on link it should simply display the iimage in your browser but might shrink it to fit. However after a few seconds you should get a magnify Icon. Clicking on the image will then display at full res.

Regards
Bill D

[Shiraz (Ray)]

crikey Bill, that is a spectacular effort. thanks for posting

[jenchris (Jennifer)]

Very nice - it's got some lovely contrast

[leon]

Man that is some image, talk about close and personal, well done.

Leon

[TechnoBill]

Thanks. For the compliments

For something really spectacular, you should have been here after a week of processing and stacking all of the avi's only to find I could not align them properly (many expletives deleted !!!).
Each panel was a 500 Frame Avi File that had to be stacked first before I could assemble the pano. I think I got carried away but I couldnt stop myself

Bill D
Hmmm now maybe I should try one of the sun at that res

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Brilliant job, All that detail from a full moon right across. well done.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Bill. That large image is playing havoc with my ram and I got 4 gig. Wow. Great light and shadow. Well done.

[csb (Craig)]

Fantastic! Just like looking threw my scope - very clear.

The large image loaded in about 10secs with mobile broadband and 2gig RAM.

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Fantastic work Bill, looks awsome.
You could get a poster printed from that size image.

[TechnoBill]

Thanks alot,
Normally when I do a pano, there are usually some defective panels or missing bits but this time around it worked out well.

In regards to making a poster, I happen to have a friend that has a poster printer. I will haveto drop by and visit him over the hols :-)
I might just happen to have a couple of images on a usb drive :-)

Regards
Bill D

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very nicely done. Super sharp.

[SMan (Henryk)]

That's insanely fantastic!!!
Pre-order for a print is on the way

[Bob]

WOW Bill
Why are you selling your scope when you are getting such great results.
Maybe you should keep it.
Regards Bob

[TechnoBill]

Originally Posted by SMan

That's insanely fantastic!!!
Pre-order for a print is on the way

Hehe I have to get mine done first. But its just the moon there are alot of nice moon pics out there already and its does not change.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very nicely done. Super sharp.

Thanks, I find using a mono video camera makes all the diff.

Originally Posted by Bob

WOW Bill
Why are you selling your scope when you are getting such great results.
Maybe you should keep it.
Regards Bob

Hey Bob, how things?
Yeah thats going through my mind at the moment too. In reality I rarely use it because of local light polution and too lazy to go out at night. It seems such a wast having such a nice setup sit out in the obs not being used. My interest at the moment is in solar imaging. I really enjoy the ever changing features. I wanted to use the money from the sale to upgrade the solar scope, but recently I have got some excellent results from my existing one so the upgrade is sot so urgent now.

Bill D