First ever lunar mosaic

[vineyard]

Hello,

Just catching up w some of the amazing recent lunar images on here - wow!

Finally got round to processing & stitching my first ever lunar mosaic (JPEG for size).  The captures were done last Thurs 18 Feb, a Telementor 2 on a modded Vixen SP mount w an ASI290MM and an Optolong UV-IR filter, using FireCapture (first time for me).

Since the 290MM has a smaller FOV than a 178MM, needed to do mosaics.  Processing done via AS!3, then ImPPG.  Then 3 panes stitched in LightRoom (tried PI but it didn't align well at all, & MS ICE download site is down).  Then a bit of GIMP (mostly high-pass).

I just love looking at the moon (which is just as well since its Bortle 8 & 9 here otherwise for visual 😂).

Cheers all & stay safe,

Vin

[happy-kat]

Nice capture

Does you see imaging challenge #1

I saw your post about Microsoft ICE, hopefully that will be available soon it's a great sticher

[Kon]

Very nice crisp image! Lovely amount of details.

[vineyard]

On 25/02/2021 at 19:37, happy-kat said:

Nice capture

Does you see imaging challenge #1

I saw your post about Microsoft ICE, hopefully that will be available soon it's a great sticher

I hadn't thought about that @happy-kat - been seeing the striking asteroid & artificial satellites pics posted on that & thought a simple old moon shot would be incongruous.  Still, nothing ventured nothing gained so why not.

PS v good earth shot you've submitted on that challenge - even HST couldn't get that much clarity!