Infrared Moon Mosaic with 127mm Maksutov

[Jim Smith]

This required eight videos to get sufficient overlap. I am amazed at how Photoshop stitches the pieces together. Details below...

Location...
West Herefordshire, UK
Latitude: 52.2
Longitude: -3.1

Seeing(MeteoBlue)...
ArcSec: 1.51
Index1: 5
Index2: 5
Jetstream: 11 m/s

Hardware...
Telescope=Sky-Watcher 127mm Maksutov
Camera=ZWO ASI678MM
Filter=Antlia IR-Pass 685nm
Mount=Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi

Capture...
SharpCap Pro 4.1
Output Format=SER file (*.ser)(Auto)
Binning=1
Capture Area=3840x2160
Colour Space=MONO8
Temperature=28.1
Gain=210
Exposure=2.0000ms
TimeStamp=2024-05-19T21:01:56.2410171Z
SharpCapVersion=4.1.12151.0
Duration=131.344s
FrameCount=5000
ActualFrameRate=38.0679fps
TimeZone=+1.00

Processing...
Autostakkert!4
8x .ser files
Stacked best 50 of 5,000 frames

Enhancing...
Affinity Photo 2.4.2
Curves
Unsharp Mask Radius=10px Factor=2 Threshold=0%

Mosaic/Panorama...
Photoshop 25.10
Photomerge Auto, Geometric Distortion Correction=ON

[JAC51]

Great detail in both the image itself and how it was put together

[LukeTheNuke]

Very nice! Oh, Photoshop user. Very posh! Erm, where do I find this feature in GIMP?

[Jim Smith]

13 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said:

Very nice! Oh, Photoshop user. Very posh! Erm, where do I find this feature in GIMP?

Thank you! I don't know about GIMP. I think Affinity Photo might have a mosaic merging feature. There was a thing called Microsoft ICE or similar but I don't know if you can still get it.