Moon Mosaic: Coachella Valley Astrophotography 7-17-16

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Moon Mosaic: Coachella Valley Astrophotography 7-17-16
This is not your typical Moon picture, but a mosaic of 11 pictures of the Moon stitched together to create a very large and detailed image. 

This was actually created using 11 short video clips: I pointed at one part of the Moon, took a short video at 64 frames per second, and then used stacking software which picked the best of those frames and added them together to produce a single image. I then moved the telescope to a different part of the Moon and repeated the procedure 11 times, until I had images of the entire surface of the Moon. These were then processed to sharpen the details, and finally stitched together to create the mosaic. 

Taken 7-17-16 in Cathedral City, CA
Nexstar 6se + 6.3 focal reducer
asi120mc-s camera
64fps 3000 frames per video
11 videos total
Dimensions 3300x3100

http://coachella-astronomy-astrophotography.blogspot.com/2016/07/moon-mosaic-coachella-valley.html

 

[MarkyD]

You see the moon almost every night and it still impresses me

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22 minutes ago, MarkyD said:

You see the moon almost every night and it still impresses me

Indeed it does

[Knighty2112]

Nice work. Well done. Captures the moon well.  

[johnfosteruk]

Impressive detail you've captured there.

[laudropb]

Very nice image.

[Astro Imp]

You've done very well to capture some nice detail.

As has been said the moon never fails to interest.

 

[Mr Spock]

A bit too much contrast but nice and sharp.

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6 hours ago, Mr Spock said:

A bit too much contrast but nice and sharp.

thanks for the input, I do think it needs to be a bit brighter