Lunar Mosaic, 20% Waxing Crescent | Feb 28th 2020

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

Had a clear night with some ok seeing, figured I'd try a new combination to do high resolution mosaics with less gamble on seeing variability and missing a spot with overlap using several panels. Produced this mosaic with just 5 panels with generous overlap (could have probably did it in 4 with more creative positioning) using the large IMX183 sensor with its tiny 2.4um pixels and used a 742nm IR filter to handle seeing conditions. Overall did 1k frames for each panel (at a slow 18 FPS due to the massive data throughput of the 20Mp sensor) and stacked 401 frames from each.

Image scales are 0.21"/pixel & 302 meters per pixel

Thumbnail size:

Astrobin for full resolution:

Equipment:

T.S. 200mm F6 Quartz Newtonian with Meade Telenegative 2x Barlow (F12)

ASI183MM (2.4um pixel) sensor with ProPlanet 742nm IR filter

Very best,