Unintentional Lunar Mosaic

[Aussie Dave]

Early morning on the 22/09/2016 with the Celestron 8i SCT, Bintel 2x ED 2" Barlow, ZWO ASI174mm and Celestron UV/IR cut off filter with Firecapture. Conditions poor.

I was taking 1 minute videos here and there around the lunar surface. Focusing was difficult, wobbly live view with fleeting sharp frames.

After Autostakkert2 had aligned and stacked 5% best frames (around 4150 total each video) then wavelets in Registax6, I decided to throw the resulting images in to AutoStitch to see what it could do. I had no intentions of doing a mosaic, it just happened.

Finished off in PaintDotNet with some sharpening and level adjustment.

The images I'm getting are still on the soft side, happy with what I got as I'm starting to get some detail in the larger crater walls. Hoping for much better conditions soon.

This final image has been reduced in size.

 

2 pane below from AutoStitch, slightly larger image from the one above.

 

 

[johnfosteruk]

Looks good to me Dave, plenty of craterlets visible in Clavius which is one of my favourite lunar features

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Dave, you have nailed the detail mate. you need a eliment of softness to portray the moon properly, its not all sharp.  well done.  thanks ,charl.

[laudropb]

Very nice work Dave.