CCD vs Film? Lots of time vs no patience? Alright, this is your place to discuss all the astrophotography what's and what's not. You can discuss about techniques, accessories, cameras, whatever....just make sure you also post some nice photos here too!
Here is another Moon mosaic taken about 2 weeks ago. Going for higher resolution, I had it imaged with the Tak Mewlon 210 & DMK21 mono camera. Conditions were not ideal at the time of imaging, very windy and seeing was bad, coupled with hight humidity, the Moon looked wash out to the naked eye. Interesting as it seems, this form of composite imaging allow us transcend the dynamic range and limitations of our imaging devices. The finished image looks better than my expectation. The only let down was there is one corrupted video file on the south eastern limb, prevented me from completing the mosaic.
Wow, very high resolution! I love mosaics, but it's really a pity that you didn't get to complete the South Eastern limb, or else it'd be a perfect mosiac! (:
What is the final res of the pic, not this reduce res for the post?
The final image size is huge, it is made up of 130+ subs with about 25-30% overlaps. The finished pic is approx 4500X4500 pix. Took me nearly about a week of my free time to stitch it together.
Did you use any software to like registax for improving the contrast or is it just long exposure time ?
Yes Registax is still the gold standard for stacking and for preliminary sharpening of the stacked avi images. The stacked images were then stitch together with photoshop.
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