Hi all. Here are some recent Moon photos that I made into a mosaic. There are a total of 7 photos that make up this mosaic. All are 20 sec avi's at 1/100 of a sec 30 FPS. All taken with my etx 125 and a sac 7 ccd with a 5.0 focal reducer installed. No filters were used. A total of 3,500 frames were used to make this photo.

The processing was done in Registax 4. the photos were cleaned up using photoshop 9.0 - Photofilter, this is a great freeware program if you have not used it try it you will like it, and Noiseware another freeware program hope you enjoy. Paul

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Paul,

This is great. Your Mare Serenitatis has just the right hues and even the smallest craters are nice and sharp. I like the ray stretching northeastwards through the one craterlet. Manilius to the Southwest is particularly sharp and bright.
Keep going!!

Phil

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I am amazed, as this "hobby" advances with better optics, cameras, imaging skills and software, with the amount of detail that keeps incrementing. Any single impact here on Earth by "space debris" large enough to create a crater the size of the smallest one visible here would surely ruin your day!

Thanks for sharing a great mosaic. Since I don't have a video camera, perhaps I will be able to take a few hundred or so digital still images, select the "best of the batch" from each section, and then combine the results with others from different views, and produce a good mosaic as well. It all takes time, doesn't it? Right now, it's mostly cloudy here in the Los Angeles area, with predictions of rain tonight and tomorrow, so this weekend doesn't seem to hold out much prospect in gathering photons. Bummer

I'll have to check out the software you mentioned in your post.

Thanks!

Paul

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AutoClub,

This is precisely what I am doing. I take lots of images afocally through the eyepiece of the scope and then select the best ones. If you then do different areas of the moon, you can stitch them together like Paul has done. Look at my Full Moon thread and you will see what I am talking about. Mine is not a mosaic but the best of many images.
Hope your skies clear soon

Phil

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