Crop from a 170 frame moon mosaic from 31-10-15

[MikeD]

Shot this Saturday /Sunday between 10pm and 4am.

I haven't been out with the scope for ages so thought a moon mosaic would be a good way back in.

Seeing was very good but as you can see there are lots of soft areas when I was shooting through fog patches

Also I usually shoot moon images through a red filter to improve the seeing, I wrongly assumed the red filter was in line,  it wasn't so this was all shot through the luminance filter.

Kikking myself as through a red filter this could have been a lot sharper.

Big overlaps on each frame increased the total needed greatly but because I am out of practice I thought better safe than sorry.

Below is the full 170 frame mosaic @ 10% of full size

and a full size crop (not sure how many frames are in the full size crop). click on the big image to get the full size pic.

Taken through my 10" newt eyepiece projection with a 10mm ep and DMK21mono

each avi was 3000 frames @ 60fps

 

[xtreemchaos]

outstanding image Mike, cracking detail. well done.  thanks for posting  charl.

[Astro Imp]

Lovely work Mike, loads of detail and nice tonal range. Well done.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Stunning! I have been called king of mosaics over at SolarChat, but you must then be the emperor

[Aussie Dave]

Wow! Outstanding on full size, too much detail to take in all at once. Amazing work Mike, congrats.

[MikeD]

Thanks all for the very kind comments.

Mike.

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Lovely contrast and sharp focus.

[Alan]

Great detail and smooth processing Mike, well worth the effort

[JamesF]

That is an absolutely outstanding image and must have been a lot of work.  Well done.

James