22 pane afocal mosaic of the Moon 14.12.11

[Ju_Cooper]

22 pane mosaic from stacked afocal video taken around 7am 14.12.11. Canon Digital Ixus 800IS. 10mm eyepiece. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Processing in Registax 6 and Photoshop. Stitched in Microsoft ICE. Colour blend layer from separate DSLR shot.

22 pane mosaic of the waning gibbous Moon 0705 UT 14 December 2011 by Julian Cooper, on Flickr

[hayju01]

Neat image there! superb detail

[ASTROSTUART]

Excellent picture, you should be well pleased with the quality, sharpness and detail.

[Ju_Cooper]

Many thanks for the kind comments

[gdheib0430]

With the afocal shots have you found you need to crop a bit from the edges of the shot because of the lense stretching out the sides of the moon's features? Been trying 10mm afocal as of late just haven't messed with registax as of yet.

[Ju_Cooper]

With the afocal shots have you found you need to crop a bit from the edges of the shot because of the lense stretching out the sides of the moon's features?

I haven't found that to be a problem, although I do crop a little from the edges where there are stacking artifacts (rather than distortion).

I've just noticed that the picture in my original post isn't showing so I've linked it direct below: