166-pane last quarter Moon

[Starman]

Hi all,

Not posting much in SGL of late but I am still imaging as much as I ever did. Here's a 166-pane hand stitched mosaic from August 10th when the Moon was at last quarter phase. The separate panes were caught between 04:06 and 04:49 BST using a C-14 at prime focus and a PGR Flea-3 camera.

The image is too large to show in one hit so I'm presenting it in a zoomable format - just follow the link...

http://www.zoom.it/ephS#full

Best regards,

Pete

[Black Knight]

Wow, that is amazing, 166 panes! It's a great image

[JohnC]

Awesome.

[squeaky]

Cracking.

[DirkSteele]

Fasntastic work.

[nmoushon]

Thats awesome! Love the website too! Really lets you "see" the 166 panels. Great job.

[Dipper]

Impressive.

[nightfisher]

superb image, thanks for sharing

[JamesF]

Very nice indeed.

James

[neil phillips]

Amazing resolution Pete.

[Rihard]

Class !

[Psychobilly]

Nice to here from you again Pete and see you posting a link to such a fantastic image ... A stunning piece of work its worth spending time panning and zooming around your image just to see how "seemless" it is

Peter...

[JohnC]

Going to use this image as a guide to my lunar observing.

What a stunning piece of work.

[tbird]

I was following you on twitter building this image, amazing work.

[Photosbykev]

time very well spent in producing so much detail

[stev74]

Wow, that is absolutely stunning, it 'feels' like I'm looking through an eyepiece at my scope while zooming and panning around your image.... Breathtaking.

[allcart]

What can you say! its just incredible. There is so much detail I can hardly believe it was taken from here.

You can even see the remains of the meteors inside some of the craters. Well done you.

[bigal1]

Probaby the best ive seen so far well done that is superb

[Folkert]

Unbelievable picture, I take my time to inspect the details, this is great!

[michaelmorris]

A superb image and I would imagine a huge amount of work.

With a capture time of just 43 minutes and 166 images that's only 15 seconds to slew the scope and to capture the AVI.

You were either very busy for 43 minutes or the slewing and/or image capture was automated. If it was automated, what software did you use?

[Starman]

Hi all, thanks for the great comments.

Yes, this was a lot of work, took ages to post process the panes. Movement of scope was completely manual, once you get into a rhythm it's not that hard. Helped by a camera with 120fps peak rate though of course. The seeing through some parts of the capture was very good indeed. I was in two minds whether to carry on or simply switch to a higher power. In the end I'm glad I finished it.

Capture software was Firecapture.

Pete

[JamesF]

Movement of scope was completely manual

Now I am in awe.

James

[Pete Presland]

thats a great image, well worth the effort!

[tea drinker]

Probaby the best ive seen so far well done that is superb

Yep, have to agree with this, breaks new ground. It will be some challenge to beat that in fairness ;-)

[Zul]

Brilliant work!!