Bad Moon Rising...

[PhotoGav]

I'm making slow progress with this lunar mosaic thing. Here's my attempt at the moon from 28-12-14. Lots of panes, but not enough. Doh!

Each pane was 800 frames, with best 100 stacked. Lots of help received on settings in AS!2 - conclusion, mono is fast, rgb isn't. Exposure was problematic.

Oh so much to learn still... Next time...

[Blazar]

keep going Gav. I have one that looks like Pacman.....;-)

[Jannis]

been there, done that, waaay too many times, and especially when using the barlow... Keep going though, it's worth the troubble!

I found out my biggest enemy was that not only does the moon slowly drift away from my FOV, but i also didn't have the camera properly aligned with the mount movements, so if i pushed to left, it could go for example 65 degrees up to the left instead, this made it very hard to guild around to cover every part of the moon.

A small mark on the camera and focuser did the trick though, so now i'm at least never far off on having it aligned well.

[PhotoGav]

Thank you for the encouragement folks!

@Jannis, interesting and good point about the CCD being square to the mount axis. I will pay careful attention to that next time.

[Stardust]

I can appreciate your pain after doing a 21 pane mosiac, bit of a jump from 6, worth it in the end end though

[Qualia]

Great work, Gav. Look forward to the finished result

[PhotoGav]

Great work, Gav. Look forward to the finished result

Harsh, but fair!

[theo]

Nice to see you doing some Lunar work Gav. It's a shame missing out those small sections but still a nice piece of work.

Pete

[PhotoGav]

Thanks Pete. Despite my first love being deep sky stuff, the Moon is a great target too and it does alleviate the frustration of it drowning out the rest of the sky! I hope to do some more serious planetary stuff this year too, starting with Jupiter, just as soon as I have finished the current project with the edge and 683.