Lunar Mosaic Tool?

[kirkster501]

Hi all, How do you guys ensure you captured all parts of the moon when doing a detail mosaic that requires many panes to be stitched together?  Is there a way to do that, some utility?

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Thanks, Steve

[Jonk]

The only one I know of is MoonPanoramaMaker.

https://github.com/Rolf-Hempel/MoonPanoramaMaker

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/534430-automatic-lunar-mosaicing/

Are there any others?

[Cornelius Varley]

EQMosaic

[Jonk]

Ah yes of course!

[Rolf]

1 hour ago, kirkster501 said:

Hi all, How do you guys ensure you captured all parts of the moon when doing a detail mosaic that requires many panes to be stitched together?  Is there a way to do that, some utility?

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve,

That's funny: Ten minutes ago I created my SGL account, and when I looked around in the forums section the first thing I stumbled across was your posting. In fact, I'm the author of the MoonPanoramaMaker Jonk mentioned. There is a lengthy discussion on it in the other forum, so I do not want to repeat it all here.

Before I started developing MPM two years ago, I did a thorough survey of exeisting software. Nothing was good enough for my purpose, so I started my own project. As far as I know, it is still the only software that is really targetting the moon. Important features are:

• only cover the sunlit part of the moon
• take into account all movements of the moon (caused by its own movement and that of the observer around the earth center)
• automatically correct for mount drift
• do not duplicate video capturing software, but connect to FireCapture instead.

I have written a detailed user guide. The whole software is open-source and free of charge. Coincidentally, after one year of intensive work just two days ago I released a new software version.

All the best,

 Rolf

[Freddie]

iMerge allows you to drop each captured AVI into it and it displays the first image in the AVI on the screen. Each time you drop in the next AVI, you can check that it overlaps the previous. As you continue to capture AVIs and drop them into iMerge you can check you have everything covered with suitable overlaps.