Large moon mosaic. 100 megapixel

[wouterdhoye]

Hi,

On september 29th i set out to take my biggest challenge so far imaging the moon. Making a full res mosaic at a 6000mm focal length. The reuslt you find in the below link:

Equipment used: CFF Cassegrain 300mm f/20 + ZWO ASI 174 + Baader orange filter

software: Firecapture, Autstakkert, Lynkeos, Photoshop

https://www.astrobin.com/369490/C/

in total 48 panels were stitched together. For each panel 5000 frames were captured totaling over 500Gb of data. For each panel the best 500 frames were then stacked in Autostakkert. Afterwards all frames were stitched together in photoshop. Something I did manually. I tried to do automatic but for some reason it never worked out well.  Even doing it manually required more than one attempt. Then the full mosaic was cut up in 9 pieces to be processed in lynkeos for deconvolution processing (full image crashed the computer). Those 9 panels were then stitched together again for final processing in Photoshop.

The result is, even though I say so myself, very satisfactory. Not yet perfect as I did hit a few bumps. Like a secondary mirror of the cassegrain being covered in dew, and less than perfect seeing conditions.

Enjoy, and don't hesitate to share your thoughts.

Clear skies,

Wouter.

[Laurin Dave]

The full res image is simply .... Amazing... well done

[Victor Boesen]

woooow!! Really worth taking a look at the full version!

[ronl]

Wow, the detail is superb, a lot of work and effort has gone into your fantastic image.

[Stu]

That is a wonderful image, really sharp and very nicely processed. I shall spend some time looking at that! Thanks!

[geoflewis]

Wouter, it is a superb image, very well done. Geof

[johnfosteruk]

An outstanding image, all the more impressive for being manually stitched!!!

[WestCoastCannuck]

Link is down....   hope you can fix it!  Looking forward to seeing it.

[Ruud]

same here - I see a message that says:

Fatal error. Something unexpected occurred! We have received an email with technical details, so we will try to fix the problem as soon as possible. Sorry about the inconvenience!

I'll try again later.

[wouterdhoye]

Seems Astrobin is down.. I hope they get it sorted asap.

Wouter

[nightfisher]

excellent image, well done

[Pete Presland]

Cracking close up capture!

[Nick Smith]

A great result Wouter, well worth the effort

[Ruud]

Managed to get it this time!

I chose to see version C and it is awesome!

[Big Jim Slade]

Wow, that is insane. Well done!

[MARS1960]

It's 1.12AM and if the wifey wasn't so scary in the morning i would go and wake her now ?, that is amazing, thank you.