Jan 18 Moon Mosaic

[brianb]

Another one from last week:

2011 Jan 18, 0057 - 0119 UT. William Optics FLT 110, 2x Powermate, W29 (deep red) filter, Imaging Source DMK41 camera. 20 frame mosaic, 24% resize: full size version here (3350 x 3350 pixels, 747 Kb download size).

Apparent diameter 32.47 arc min. Colongitude 71.7 deg. Illumination 95.6%. Libration in latitude +00 deg 40 min; libration in longitude -06 deg 11 min. Altitude 48.7 deg.

[oldfruit]

Another cracking image, nice capture.

[Dave Smith]

I've shied away from doing a near full moon mosaic, but there is plenty of interesting detail there. Lovely image as always.

Dave

[barkis]

Even full illumination can't drown the detail in this Image.

Very well engineered captures and build job.

Ron.

[brianb]

Thanks guys ... I'm afraid I tend to treat the Moon as a "target of last resort"!

There's an interesting new technique I've tried on this last one, to get more detail in the terminator without washing out the detail in the rest of the disk. I think I can improve further but don't have time to try at the moment.

[Dave Smith]

There's an interesting new technique I've tried on this last one, to get more detail in the terminator without washing out the detail in the rest of the disk.

Are you going to spill the beans?

Dave

[brianb]

Are you going to spill the beans?

Made a moon with the same diameter & a smaller phase, selected that area, inverted selection with a large feather (selecting the terminator area), increased gamma in that area only ...

[nightfisher]

lovely image, well done

[ollypenrice]

Stunning contrasts with this level of illumination.

Olly

[luis]

EXCELLENT MOSAIC !!! You did a gret job with FLT 110

Regards,Luis

[jumpclone]

wow. nice

[Freddie]

Nice pic and taken on my birthday !!

[kris h]

Excellent lunar image brianb

[brianb]

Thanks again!

[luis]

How much it took, taking all the frames to do this great moon?

[brianb]

How much it took, taking all the frames to do this great moon?

Each of the 20 tiles was a stack of 250 from 1000 frames shot. So there's 20,000 frames (each 1280 x 960 pixels) in the image ... 24,576,000,000 bytes.

Shooting lots of frames keeps the noise down.

[fatwoul]

Made a moon with the same diameter & a smaller phase, selected that area, inverted selection with a large feather (selecting the terminator area), increased gamma in that area only ...

That's clever, and reassuring; I'm never sure if combining shots from different sessions counts as "cheating". I'm glad to hear it isn't!

Nice pic and taken on my birthday !!

Happy Birthday.

[sheri_barri]

The sharpness and detail in the craters is breath taking!!!

[spacebloke]

That's a really nice image, you should frame it!