Lunar mosaic first attempt

Date of image 12/11/2016.

Hardware details: Camera: Canon 550D in 640X480 movie crop mode 60fps. ISO 100 exposure 1/60s. Telescope: SW Skymax 150 MakCass. No filters were used and the camera was at prime focus. Mount: EQ5 Pro. The scope was focused using a Bahtinov mask on a bright star. Each frame was taken from about 4 minutes of video (~14400 frames).

Processing details: Pipp is used to convert .mov to avi and filter high quality frames (the best 1200 frames are retained). The converted movie is the processed in Registax with 100 alignment points. I use the Registergraph to keep only the frames within 100-90% of frame quality. I stack the frames with 2x drizzle (0.5 pixel). I then alter the first 3 wavelet settings (80.4, 20.2, 5.4) I then alter the gamma to 0.8. The mosaic was patched together using the Gimp.

Comments:

The Moon was getting near (357400 Km) to its close approach to the Earth. I was busy showing my wife different parts of the Moon so I didn't run a systematic sweep across the surface, good fun btw. My next task is to image the whole Moon, about 4 hours of imaging I think. I also aim to leave enough overlap to crop the frames and remove the less sampled edges of the frames.