Mare Crisium: A Skymax 102 Mak View

[moflaher]

Hi All:

I have made a mosaic of Mare Crisium, as a first attempt to create a mosaic.

The idea behind this project was to see how far can I go by concentrating in a lunar area, and try to push the limits of my mak, I tried to figure out what is the smallest features that is named in Rukl Sky&Telescope map and VMA that I can confirm.

The smallest: Cleomedes F (6x6 km, VMA)

Location:

My backyard in Liverpool, 24-09-10, around 23.00

Some clouds, but in general very good conditions, seeing 5-6/10

Set up:

Skymax 102 goto

Lifecam HD + Barlow 2x (SW issue)

Imaging:

4 avis between 1-1.3 min, at 10 FPS, 640X480, producing 300-400 frames stacked with registax. Same wavelets applied to all the tiles.

Mosaic:

Assembled with iMerge and converted to grayscale with Paintshop pro.

2 files: The mosaic and the mosaic with labels.

Interestingly, the diameter of Mare Crisium is almost the same distance from London to Glasgow, to put things into perspective.

[Cloudwatcher]

Thats cool....... and informative.

Why convert to greyscale?

[Worzsel]

That is cool!

Thanks for sharing

[southernman]

Nice imaging !!

[lukebl]

Nicely done and well presented!

[TheThing]

Interesting shot, especially with the lables added. How did you do that?

[moflaher]

I pasted the image in powerpoint, and with the Sky & Telescope lunar map and virtual moon atlas as reference for the names.

[AztecastroMcJ]

good work there !

Thats cool....... and informative.

Why convert to greyscale?

why not convert to grey scale ?

[Myles]

hi nice picture you have got really good detail in that pic, what did you use

myles

[jgs001]

Nicely done

[Gadget]

Great informative images nicely done

　

Kevin

[iamzoso60]

Really nice close up shot.

[angusb1]

Like the labels.

[nightfisher]

lovely image, gives me inspiration for my project

[just looking]

Wow very good