Project Apollo

[Stub Mandrel]

This is a composite image showing the sites of all six successful Apollo Moon landings with the moon at the same scale.

Images were all taken on 27 October 2017 using a 150PL with x3 Barlow on an EQ3 tripod using a ZWO ASI120MC camera. The majority of the images contained very little useful colour information, aside from that for Apollo 11, so they are all presented here in mono. The Apollo 12 landing site was rather close to the terminator and that of Apollo 14, so it was decided to place these on the same image.

Pre-processed in PIPP, stacked in Registax and AS!3 (according to which worked best on each image), processed in Registax/Astra Image. Final compilation and labels in Corel Draw, then converted to PNG in Astra.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice idea! I was an avid fan of the Apollo project. Astronauts and cosmonauts were the greatest heroes in my youth. A rather better class of hero that the various "celebutards" you get these days (mainly famous for being famous, rather than any particular achievement).

[barkis]

I agree  with Michael, Apollo was a very exciting period, and nice 
to look back at the sites where men actually left footprints.