First ever attempt of a mosaic of the moon

[StarRaver]

Hello all after a weekend away in Torquay with my partner celebrating 10 years together the thick cloud and weather was nice enough to clear up the night we got home, so I was straight out with the scope in the freezing cold, as it was to bright to try for any dso's I ended up trying a mosaic of the moon for the first time, anyway here is my result

Thanks for looking

Dale

[springbok]

That's very nice Dale, well done.

What settings?

What software did you use?

It is a bit chilly out tonight isn' it

I've been having another go at M42, but the moon is being a pain.

Grahame.

[StarRaver]

Hi Grahame, yes it is very cold, I couldn't stay out to long as I didn't have the right cloths on lol,

I went out aiming to do some more dso's but every shot I took no matter where in the sky they were all washed out by the moon, in the end I gave up on that idea and turned my attention to the culprit and thought I would try a mosaic

I used Backyard eos in the planetary setting x5 at iso 100, shutter speed 1/50. I took seven frames all together each frame consisted of 500 subs all aligned and stacked in registax and then put together in Photoshop with a little patience

[springbok]

Thanks for the deatils, I should have had a go a the moon myself.

I had a go at M42 again, but as you say the moon wasn' playing ball.

I was hoping M51 would come into view for me as it was away from the moon, bu the cloud rolled in before it cleared my house.

Hey ho, I got some good cold dark subs anyway,

Cheers,

Grahame.

[stem1989]

That looks amazing! It can be a real pain with the moon out ruining our shots but a nice way to change the evening and you have a great image to show for it.

[StarRaver]

Thank you Stem, It as a shame that the seeing / transparency wasn't better as that zoomed in on the moon the air was very wavy ( if you get what im saying ) focus was a pain but I think it turned out ok for a dslr.

Grahame, I didn't think of getting more dark subs, passed my mind as it was so cold last night lol might have to do that next time as you can never have to many dark frames lol

[Bizibilder]

Very nice mosaic.

Have you tried Microsoft "ICE" for assembling your mosaics? Works well.

[StarRaver]

no I can't say that i have heard of it, I used Photoshop for this but I will defiantly have a look at that than you

[StarRaver]

here is a link to a high res version if anyone is interested

http://www.astrobin.com/full/30481/?mod=none

[StarRaver]

I have had a little play in Photoshop and tweaked a few things, I think this is better but looking at a computer screen of the same thing for hours is a bit of a pain as i started to loose track of what looked right or not

anyways here is the link http://www.astrobin.com/full/30481/B/?

[Pete Presland]

you have done a very nice job, excellent image!

[SnakeyJ]

Dale,

Nice image and looks more natural/true than my own first attempt https://www.dropbox....n_9P_Mosaic.jpg and you managed to capture the full disk.

Did you use filters and how many panels did you shoot for this? Would be interested to here how you processed this too?

Regards - Jake

[Obi Wan Ken00bi]

Very Nice image. Looks nasa took it themselves . You know this probably but photoshop has a very nice auto merge tool under file - automate - photomerge. Maybe this helps stitching them.

keep up the good work!!

[SnakeyJ]

I used Backyard eos in the planetary setting x5 at iso 100, shutter speed 1/50. I took seven frames all together each frame consisted of 500 subs all aligned and stacked in registax and then put together in Photoshop with a little patience

Sorry Dale, just found the settings info but too late to edit my previous!

[StarRaver]

Thank you all for the kind words i will defiantly have another go at this when the seeing/ transparency is a lot better as there was a lot of turbulence in the air at the time i took this ,

Jake, I didn't use any filters with this, and your shot is simply stunning, the amount of detail you have there is out of this world lol much better than my attempt, shame you didn't manage to get the last two little segments though.

[Mzungu]

nice detail in that - lovely