My first mosaic

[dawson]

Cut and paste from my facebook entry, I do apologise:

 

My first astronomical mosaic image. Four 60 second videos of the four quadrants of the moon taken on my Canon 6D DSLR at prime focus on my 180mm Maksutov Cassegrain telescope, mounted on AZEQ6GT. Each video converted into an *.avi by PIPP (https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/), and then stacked in Registax using only the best 30% of frames (http://www.astronomie.be/registax/). The four resultant *.tiff files then merged into the mosaic with Microsoft ICE (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/). Saved again as a *.tiff, and loaded into PhotoShop where the levels and curves adjusted slightly and whole image desaturated (turned grey scale, I believe), then saved as a *.jpg. It was far easier than I thought. And now I want to do more Sorry about the white bar, bottom left, no idea why it's there!

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1673286/MoonMosaicjsd.jpg

 

James