Moon Terminator Mosaic 04-01-2016

This is a mosaic of the Moon's terminator at about 6 days old.

Telescope: SW 150mm F12 Mak-Cass. With a Baader fringe killer filter.

Camera: Canon EOS 550D in 60 frames/s movie crop mode, ISO 400, exposure 1/60s. I took 3 minute recordings for each image (10800 frames).

Processing: Movies were initially processed in Pipp, keeping the best 2000 frames and decompressing them. The decompressed frames were then passed to Registax aligned using 100 points. The best 90% of the frames (using the Registergraph) were kept and stacked. The final image was enhanced by amplifying the first three wavelets by 80, 20, and 5 respectively. The Gamma was reduced to 0.8.

Comments: In this attempt I wanted to cover the terminator region with two layers of images to give a bit more coverage of the sunlit side of the terminator. I unfortunately missed a bit in the southern region (it is difficult to keep track of what you have covered). Stitching he mosaic together proved very difficult, some frames would fit perfectly with fames one side but would be completely out of alignment the other side. I tried tilting and rescaling the images but I gave up and posted the result here!