Moon mosaic - 22 panels

[don4l]

This is a 22 pane mosaic taken at 4000mm with an ASI120mc on a Tal200K with a 2x barlow.  I've got the feeling that the 2x is pushing it a bit far,but I wanted to find out what it would be like.  It is better than without the barlow,  but the difference is not huge.  I've scaled the image to 60% because it just looked worse at full size.  Perhaps I should have reduced it even further???

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[JamesF]

Certainly looks pretty good as it is.

James

[Hughsie]

Now that I like! Awesome moon shot don4l

 

[geoflewis]

Very nice as it is Donal

[geeklee]

Felt a bit like dialup internet as it was loading the full size (what felt like line by line) on my phone, but what a treat when it had finished. Awesome 👍

[wouterdhoye]

It's a nice effort. Amount od detail and general processing is pretty good. What I doo notice however are quite a few edges from stitching. How did you put the mosaic together? Manually or with some specific tool?

if you did it manually, you need to feather the overlap.

Nonentheless a very nice image. 

Wouter.

[City9Town0]

Lovely...

[don4l]

2 minutes ago, wouterdhoye said:

It's a nice effort. Amount od detail and general processing is pretty good. What I doo notice however are quite a few edges from stitching. How did you put the mosaic together? Manually or with some specific tool?

if you did it manually, you need to feather the overlap.

Nonentheless a very nice image. 

Wouter.

Thank you.

I assembled the mosaic in the Gimp. I've tried a couple of mosaic packages in the past (ICE and iMerge).  I didn't manage to get them to work well.  I will have another look at them in the future.

[kev]

the full res pic is well worth the wait! 

Got the rills too

 

[don4l]

1 hour ago, geoflewis said:

Very nice as it is Donal

Thank you, Geof, and thanks for the tips.  Your advice has all turned out to be spot on, and has saved me lots of time and effort.

[geoflewis]

2 minutes ago, don4l said:

Thank you, Geof, and thanks for the tips.  Your advice has all turned out to be spot on, and has saved me lots of time and effort.

You are very welcome, but thanks for the thanks 😎

[don4l]

Thanks for the lovely comments. 

Last night (29th) I had another go, but this time I used a 1.6x focal extender to give a F/L of about 3200mm.  I think that in future I might stick with this, as it should mean much less processing due to the larger FOV of each frame.  I also tried Firecapture for the first time.  User incompetence meant that I ended up taking far too many subframes - I suspect that the default view may not show the full frame!!!!  My overlaps were far too big.  There was one small exception, where the overlap was a bit too small.  Hopefully nobody will notice [cough].

I haven't converted this one to monochrome because I sort of like the way that it has turned out.  I'd welcome people's opinion on this.  Perhaps it just looks weird?

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