50 pane moon mosaic 21 June 2010

[resonator77]

Darn it, missed some bits and brightness tad off

patched things up with the help of John (jgs001)

[jgs001]

The details are excellent..... you missed a bit on the upper right didn't you ? Not a bad bit of patching ... When did you start it, whilst the sky was still light ? I had that problem last week... pain to get the brightness balanced on only 20 panes, not sure I'd want to try that with 50

[resonator77]

what a pain full moon

I shot most of it after 22:00, in a rush missed a bit

[Jamie]

Like you say John this has great detail...

Good job resonator...

[Psychobilly]

Nicely done Res - your starting to nail these mosiacs now...

I haven't done one for ages...

Peter...

[resonator77]

Thanks guys,

waiting for the moon to rise higher, very difficult to use barlow at the moment too thick an atmosphere to shoot through. Prime focus is giving an acceptable results but again too much hassle to do mosaic when the moon is getting full

[jgs001]

wow... 50 panes and you're at prime focus... that's gonna be a monster when you get a barlow in there...

[resonator77]

wow... 50 panes and you're at prime focus... that's gonna be a monster when you get a barlow in there...

Speaking of which, John, do you know if Tal x3 barlow any good for imaging? Can you recommend not too expensive x3 barlow?

[jgs001]

Sorry not a clue, the 2x is pretty good though. Don't forget if you put tubes betwixt camera and barlow you increase the magnification, a diagonal will achieve the same thing.

[resonator77]

John,

tried your method and could not even focus with my TV and 50mm tube . Still do not understand tube extension barlow mix ...

So I am after cheapish x3 barlow if anyone can recommend

[jgs001]

It's basically, OTA <- Barlow <- Tube <- Camera...

The tube, moving the camera away from the barlow lens element, increases magnification. I don't know by how much... but 90mm of tubes and the star diagonal gave a pretty large boost to the magnification... shame the seeing was so poor, what with the moon being so low... still, in winter... when the moon is higher...

[Briggsy]

Great detail in this, well done

[resonator77]

thanks Briggsy

[Holliday]

Looks lovely mate. I assume this was with a DSLR then? How tricky do you find focussing and aligning the scope with your camera attached?

[resonator77]

Holliday,

it was web cam, laptop and C9.25 set up. If you read the title it indicates that this mosaic made up of 50 different pieces of the moon stitched together.

[Tim]

Thats a bit tasty Very nice indeed.

[Ant]

almost sharp enough to cut yourself on!

Looks good! I did a 78 pane mosaic on the moon and it took forever! Not just in the processing, but capturing the panes seemed like an endless task.

Hat off to anyone who tries it....

Don't forget that a 2 x barlow turn a 50 pane into a 200 pane

Ant

[PaulG]

50 pane :eek::eek:

I have trouble with only one .

Great detail showing through.

Paul

[Digz]

cracking shot. Had a go at my first mosaic last night, not a patch on this but it gives me something to aim for so I thank you for sharing

[barkis]

It's one fine Mossy especially from a very low dec. moon.

Nicely pieced together, and sharp it is.

Ron.

[blacksaltire]

great work man !

[resonator77]

Ant,

I did 77 pane recently, do not have time to work on it. Hopefully finish soon

thank you all for comments, much love

[Dr Nurburg]

Very nice picture.

I must say, I love seeing the moon during the day!? The reason is it's like a teaser representation of what it would be like to have another planet in near orbit. I'd love to live somewhere where I could see another planet, preferably life supporting, that orbits with us, like the moon.

If not then to live on a planet with 2 or more moons. That would be cool.

The moon in the daylight to me is just like that. Really awesome.

But again, excellent detail there in that picture.

[cardconvict]

still a awesome pic can't really tell that there is some missing

[kris h]

Excellent moon image resonator