First Lunar Mosaic

[Dave Moulton]

My 11 year old Nephew Jed had fun putting the pieces together last night after we imaged NGC6888

Scope not the best choice for this one but it was already up and running so it was worth a try

Scope GSO 8" F4 Newt

Camera Luminera 075 + x2 Barlow Baader coma corrector as well

Cheers,

Dave

[barkis]

Well I'd say that was a success Dave.

Let's hope it is the first of many more.

Ron.

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Dave ...

If you want absolutely painless and free stitching of Mosaics then you won't go far wrong with Microsoft ICE as recommended by a certain Nick H....

It's a very capable app...

Peter...

[Dave Moulton]

Nice one Dave ...

If you want absolutely painless and free stitching of Mosaics then you won't go far wrong with Microsoft ICE as recommended by a certain Nick H....

It's a very capable app...

Peter...

Thanks for the tip Billy I will look into it

Cheers,

Dave

[Dave Moulton]

Well I'd say that was a success Dave.

Let's hope it is the first of many more.

Ron.

Just a test Ron to be honest , it gave the little un something to play with stitching all the pieces together. Using the fast Newt was always going to give me less contrast, I was curious to see just what it could do.

Dave

[minimalist]

Well, I'd say very well done Dave and Jed, especially Jed for putting together such a seamless job. He's definitely way ahead of the learning curve on this, took me years and I still don't get it right sometimes.

Keep on keeping on!

Daniel

[Herakles]

Nice one and the lad done great with the needle,no seams showing there at all.

I have still to attempt a barlow with my 'newt , in focus might be a pain tho'

[Sparrow]

Hi Dave,

considering you're all set up for deep sky, that's a really nice mosaic - really nice contrast and excellent mosaicing.

I love the mosaicing bit - great fun - I'm not sure how MS Ice would work with a lunar mosaic - I'll have to try it, but it would take all the jigsaw fun out of it.MS Ice is a brilliant program for stitching daytime panoramas - I used it to do one recently and the results were fantastic and can warp the images to fit each other.

Regards

John