91% Moon mosaic and high res (?) closeups of various regions from 11.10 and 12.10

[ONIKKINEN]

Some lunar work with my 8'' f/4.4 newtonian + paracorr + 678MC.

Starting off with a bang with a rusty saturated rendition. By far the best shot of the 2 nights, a 5 panel mosaic of the 91% illuminated moon on 11.10. 5000x5000 pixel mosaic, worth checking out in full screen, there is loads to see:

Captures were 2000 frames each at full resolution of 3840x2160 resulting in 16gb files. Best 200 frames per panel stacked and composited in Microsoft ICE.

Im afraid its all downhill from here with the higher resolution shots as seeing was very soft, but here goes anyway. Some of them are pretty decent i think.

11.10 - Petavius with paracorr + 2.5x barlow. First with UV/IR, second with a Celestron #25 red filter that acts as a 600nm longpass and an ultra budget IR filter. Terrible seeing, as is evident from the difference in detail between the 2. Both downsampled to 70%.

UV/IR:

#25 red:

12.10 - 3 targets, again not great seeing but better than it was the night before. Captures as before with paracorr+2.5x barlow+678MC downsampled to 70%.

First, Aristoteles. I tried to take a long recording with a tiny ROI to capture the maximal amount of detail of some crater that fit the field of view, this just happened to be the one. 120k frames, best 1% stacked:

Next is Theophilus:

And lastly a dramatic looking region to the south with Metius and Fabricius in the center:

 

Im afraid i only had time to stack the day 1 results after finishing night 2, otherwise i would have used the #25 red for all the closeups, its much sharper in comparison to the rest considering the soupy seeing. The last one may have had better seeing as it appears much sharper than the rest.

Thanks for looking, it was a lot of work to capture and stack. Well over 200 gigabytes of data... Also did planetary on both nights which went mostly south so went through 400 gigabytes of .SER files just now 💀.

[neil phillips]

All good captures but loving that Mosaic

[Kon]

Nice images and I really like the colour in your mosaic.

[astrolulu]

Blue Aristarchus on a red background - that's what I like 🙂

[ONIKKINEN]

2 hours ago, astrolulu said:

Blue Aristarchus on a red background - that's what I like 🙂

It always pops out as the most prominent colour feature in these saturated shots. Gotta try and get a closer image one day under good seeing!

[ONIKKINEN]

6 hours ago, neil phillips said:

All good captures but loving that Mosaic

The 678MC with the small 2 micron pixels would be a killer low effort lunar RGB camera with your longer focus 10'' at prime focus. Not that its a huge difference to the 2.9 micron ones, but still a little bit closer. A bit painful to work with the large files though, so no free lunch there.

[geoflewis]

Gorgeous Moon mosaic and all the feature images are excellent too.

[ONIKKINEN]

Reprocessing some of the softer closeups with everything but the red channel discarded. Looks a little bit better i think:

Aristoteles, red only:

Theophilus, red only:

The southern regions with Metius and Fabricius, red only:

I think i took some wrong turns with the first pass of processing these and the terrible green and blue channels threw me off.

[WestCoastCannuck]

Great images all!   Love the mosaic!   Maybe just my monitor,  but I do find the mosaic a bit dark to my taste,  but beautiful!  Tremendous details too.  Of your mono efforts,  I am particularly taken with the last.    Wonderful contrast and punch.

 

Clear skies!

 

Mike

[ONIKKINEN]

14 minutes ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

Great images all!   Love the mosaic!   Maybe just my monitor,  but I do find the mosaic a bit dark to my taste,  but beautiful!  Tremendous details too.  Of your mono efforts,  I am particularly taken with the last.    Wonderful contrast and punch.

 

Clear skies!

 

Mike

Thanks! I am going to print that mosaic and put it on the wall, customer service from one of these printing places also said that its a little bit too dark so you are onto something with that. The room i process has no real sunlight glare issues so is quite dark. Should always proof the processed image with different lighting conditions before finishing, but this time i was too excited to post it. Playing around with a smaller image to print so that i dont waste their time and my money printing a giant wallpaper that goes to trash!

 

[CraigT82]

That mosaic is a real beaut, the different mineralogy of the Aristarchus plateau is plain to see.