100 megapixel full moon 06-05-20

[Yawning Angel]

Last nights full moon at 100 megapixels! 27 panel mosaic

Celestron C8 @ 2032mm. ZWO asi178mm with a ProPlanet IR band pass 642mn filter

27 x 500 frames, 20ms per frame. 5% stacked per stack. 18 gig captured

Mosaic compiled in Microsoft ICE. Deconvolution and wavelets in PixInsight. Background cleanup and image balancing in Photoshop

[richard ashbee]

Very sharp

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

That is very nice indeed. I was planning to make such a mosaic with my C8 yesterday, but the moon didn't rise above the trees, alas. I generally stack a higher percentage (depending on conditions), and usually manage 10% or even 25%. That allows you to push sharpening a bit more without exploding the noise too much. Might be worth a try

[Yawning Angel]

Thank you! I’ll try running the stacks again, now it’s 2am 🤪

Some of the caps where a bit thin on quality, so we’ll see what happens!