Tonight's Moon on the wane

[mightymonoped]

This is a reduced, heavily compressed version of the full-size mosaic here..

http://tinyurl.com/y73o7e

11-pane mosaic captured at prime focus on the ED80. ToUcam was in colour optimsed non-raw mode (but I left it in b/w by accident..doh!)

Tony

[Jamie]

Damned nice accident if you ask me......

[Andrew*]

WHat a beauty. That's one of the best moon shots i've seen in ages. Hoping for a few tonight myself.

Andrew

[Caz]

Thats one stunning mosaic, superb stuff Tony... 8)

Caz

[CH]

sorry but I'm learning, what is a mosaic (apart from the obvious which we have shedloads of here in Turkey)

[Jamie]

CH a mosaic is when you take several images and join them up

to make one big image.

A good example i'd say.

[Chubster]

ToUcam was in colour optimsed non-raw mode

Where do you set this? When i take shots of the moon I leave my toucam set to BW (think I read it somewhere) because the moon is....well black and white....isnt it ?

Cracking image by the way

Chub

[FLO]

V nice 8)

Thanks for sharing.

[CELESCOPE]

Thats a very nice Mosiac Tony , excellent detail as well , good control of those camera settings , well done mate , good fun eh thses Mosiacs, problem is once ya done them thats it ehhehehe , but i would like myself to get some real close ups of the craters , like one crater to fill the frame , now that would be good , over to you Tony , see what you can do. but well done on this one

Rog

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Ace picture Tony, great shot.

Captain Chaos

[CH]

Jamie

Thanks, how is this done ? , presumably via some kind of software package. Could you give me the details please?

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Check out iMerge software. It's free.

I just started using it, which caused massive raining problems, and I find it very easy to use.

Captain Chaos

[Jamie]

No probs mate.

The concept unfolds like this.

Take a sequence of images that capture the field of view that you want to frame (eventually)

Save the images as a BMP

You will then need a bit of software called "Imerge" it is freeware so just google it and download it for free.

It will come with instructions and is so simple to work (if i can do it anyone can)

After reading the instructions if you still have problems just let me know and i will take

you through it step by step.

[mightymonoped]

Thanks all

I was quite surprised to get anything useful, having totime capturing the avi's in between gusts of wind (the weather that is )

Rog, not much chance of me getting any up close work with my low tech setup (unless somebody donates a 9.25 on an EQ6 )

at the moment I have to chase every avi across the screen in Registax, not so bad at prime focus but a complete nightmare when using barlows.

CH, the mosaic was done using iMerge (just Google it), it's pretty much the easiest (and best IMO) out there.

Think I better explain "optimised colour non-raw mode" for those who are unfamiliar. It's basically one of the four different modes you can run the ToUcam in if you "re-flash" the firmware in the camera. Other settings are colour or b/w raw mode and reset to default mode. Details on the how to's (and risks) are here..

http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobond/ebrawe.htm

I've found that the optimised colour non-raw mode works really well with lunar/solar (and planetary) imaging, and it's far less hassle than messing around with raw avi's

---disclaimer---------------

I would recommend to anyone, that they are familiar and comfortable with the hardware and risks before you start to mess around with the ToUcam's firmware.

[geppetto]

Remarkable image Tony

Very well done 8)

[mightymonoped]

Wasn't too happy with the original, thought it was bit flat (and messy in the middle) so I restitched and processed it (and labelled the month correctly..doh!

Tony

[Caz]

You have done it justice Tony, its been brought to life.... 8)

Caz

[GazOC]

Nice one Tony. Cracking mosaic.

[Kain]

Thats a fantastic moon shot!

The detail is stunning.

Kain