My 60 frame Moon mosaic

[zedds]

Great work Lars!!

Wonderful image!!

[northcanadian]

That is certainly a great image and a considerable amount of work, which has paid off handsomely....congrats!!!!

[CATLUC]

Hello Lars

A great job bravo.

How many panels would it take to make a full moon to the resolution of my pictures I'm afraid to know the number.

Good day.

Luc

[Altais]

Thank you Luc. 

Well, based on the diameter of Clavius (225 km), each of your frames cover about 300 km x 300 km. Let us say you have an overlap of about 30% on each side of the panels, which would make the effective size of the panels about 210 km x 210 km, or 44100 km^2.

The cross-sectional area of the Moon is about ((3474 km)^2 x pi) = 3.79 x 10^7 km^2. Dividing the area of the Moon by the area of each panel, we get about 860 panels. And probably a bit more since this assumes that every pixel in the panels is showing some of the Moon, which won't be the case near the edges.

I say go for it! I'll sit here watching with some popcorn. 

[Altais]

You could manage with less overlap of course, say 10%. The number of panels would then be 520.

[Altais]

Looking at the bottom frame in your mosaic I realize that your planels are probably wider than I claimed, so about 380 km wide rather than 300. The number of panels with 10% overlap would then be 410. This is getting more and more manageable!