Moon Mosaic
Apr 8, 2017 15:30:58 #
I mounted a QHY 183C on my Celestron 8" EdgeHD to shoot Jupiter and decided to shoot the Moon while I was at it. Since the field-of-view of this configuration is only about a quarter of the Moon the image ended up being a five image mosaic created from the best two images from five 100 frame videos. The video was processed in AutoStakkert and the mosaic created in Autopano Giga.
The download image is 50% of full scale.
Atmospheric conditions on the eastern slopes of the Rockies are often rocking and roiling. The video clip at https://www.flickr.com/photos/58664881@N02/33769364591/ shows what conditions were like when I shot the Moon; not stable! It is hard to get a great image under these conditions; primarily the reason for only showing a half scale result
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Enjoy!
P.S.: Even after 40+ years of astrophotography and probably many hundreds of Moon images I still find the Moon an interesting target... Maybe I'm just getting lazy and it is an easy target!??
bwa
The download image is 50% of full scale.
Atmospheric conditions on the eastern slopes of the Rockies are often rocking and roiling. The video clip at https://www.flickr.com/photos/58664881@N02/33769364591/ shows what conditions were like when I shot the Moon; not stable! It is hard to get a great image under these conditions; primarily the reason for only showing a half scale result
! Enjoy!
P.S.: Even after 40+ years of astrophotography and probably many hundreds of Moon images I still find the Moon an interesting target... Maybe I'm just getting lazy and it is an easy target!??
bwa
Apr 8, 2017 21:10:35 #
bwana wrote:
I mounted a QHY 183C on my Celestron 8" EdgeH... (show quote)
The detail is very good. But the contrast is a bit too harsh. I tried to tone it down and it improved it a bit, but with only using a JPG, I didn't have much range to play with and didn't achieve what I wanted to do.
Apr 9, 2017 17:24:10 #
JimH123 wrote:
The detail is very good. But the contrast is a bit too harsh. I tried to tone it down and it improved it a bit, but with only using a JPG, I didn't have much range to play with and didn't achieve what I wanted to do.
How's this?
Just having fun...
bwa
Apr 9, 2017 21:39:18 #
Apr 9, 2017 22:12:19 #
JimH123 wrote:
Incredible!
And it wasn't even drug induced... Although Canada is moving down the road to recreational marijuana.
bwa
Apr 10, 2017 19:14:49 #
Apr 10, 2017 20:18:39 #
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Very nice mosaic Brian and it's amazing to see all the atmospheric distortion in the Video.
No wonder it's so hard to get beautiful clear Astro Photos.
Craig
No wonder it's so hard to get beautiful clear Astro Photos.
Craig
It is seldom I get a night that doesn't have the impact of the Rockies' air flow causing atmospheric turmoil!
bwa
Apr 12, 2017 02:59:16 #
bwana wrote:
I mounted a QHY 183C on my Celestron 8" EdgeH... (show quote)
Hope you don't mind, I played around with your pix.
Apr 12, 2017 13:07:31 #
Europa wrote:
Hope you don't mind, I played around with your pix.
Don't mind at all. The image is public domain.
I like the result. I should commission you to do all my processing...
bwa
Apr 12, 2017 13:15:29 #
bwana wrote:
Don't mind at all. The image is public domain.
I like the result. I should commission you to do all my processing...
bwa
I like the result. I should commission you to do all my processing...
bwa
Thanks, I like to play around. I haven't done a moon shot in a while.
Apr 13, 2017 02:00:44 #
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