High(ish) res mosaic 15.08.09 (1.6 Mb!)

[Nick Smith]

Hi guys

Finished compiling this mosaic of the 24.1 day-old Moon last night.

This is the small (50%) version and here is a link for the full-sized image:

24.1 day-old Moon photo - Nick Smith photos at pbase.com

Cheers

Nick

[brendant]

Theres only one word to describe this image Nick - AWESOME

[NickH]

What's the spec Nick?

Superb btw...truly superb

[Milliways]

Great image mate.. like looking out of a space ship window lol!

[themos]

This is the best lunar shot I've seen in a while. Well done, thanks.

[David Galvin]

Wow, that is smooth on the eye. That is the standard that I aspire to.

[Wobbly Bob]

Flipping eck, what amazing detail Nick. Well done.

[Nick Smith]

Thanks for the comments!

What's the spec Nick?

Superb btw...truly superb

Well, Nick. The full-full-sized (ie at the scale actually spat out by the camera) is around 40 mp. This would print out at about 2 metres high at 100 dpi, or 2.8 metres at 72 dpi. Not quite up to the world record spec, but I do have a few more of these to process taken at at larger phase when the seeing was better. It will probably take me a while to do these as there is quite a bit of work involved in getting everything sharp across every frame etc.

Cheers Nick

[AztecastroMcJ]

WOW Quality

SM version is Massive

great quality

James

[NickH]

NIce one Nick..and you wonder why you were soooo needed for the LWR shot... :-)

Keep em coming mate..

[Jamie]

Jeeze Nick, i have another word for it.....scary!!!!!!!!....in a good way....

[Psychobilly]

A truly magnificent image

Peter...

[ncjunk]

An awe inspiring image vg

nc

[barkis]

Excellent is all I can say Mr Smith.

But I'll say it twice.

Excellent.

Ron.

[Beyond_Vision]

Gobsmackingly good, so smooth yet so detailed. It is a joy to pan around it, there are so many features to take in, I'm sure people will look at again and again .

Regards

Kevin

[themos]

You see the Sinus Iridium? All these craterlets? This is the first image that I've seen that shows them as I observed them one night with great seeing (but at a higher sun angle).

[rawhead]

That is the standard that I aspire to.

Have to agree with that

Amazing

Cheers

Jon

[blinkity-blonk]

that's an mesmerising image, I could sit for ages looking at every bit of it nice work!

[Nick Smith]

Thanks again guys!

You see the Sinus Iridium? All these craterlets? This is the first image that I've seen that shows them as I observed them one night with great seeing (but at a higher sun angle).

The craterlets are easier to see under a higher sun angle. Here's an image of the area I took the previous night (14th August). I don't know the exact resolution of this, but I would have thought some of the craterlets are smaller than 1km.

Nick

[FLO]

Oh my!

That really is something special

[michaelmorris]

It's alright I suppose if you like that kind of thing

[Craig H]

wow............I mean.............wow.....

i'll pick my jaw up now!.............can't stop looking at it......

Thanks for posting this Nick, it's fantastic.

[Theninjagecko]

what setup ?

[David Galvin]

It's alright I suppose if you like that kind of thing

Oh but I do.......

[ASIGN_Baz]

Gobsmacked! That's just awesome! I always thought the moon was a boring subject.....not anymore!

Baz.