dawson Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 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! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazz Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Very nice James, I'm looking forward to having a go to. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 nice one james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan the Plumber Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Nice !,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Wow!! Nice work James, the sharpeness of this is awesome!!! I may give this a go at some point-not sure where to start with mosaics though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 That is a little bute James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 Thanks. Felix, I hadn't really been that bothered about doing one, but it was so "moony" last night it seemed obvious to have a go, plus there was lots of twinkle in the stars. It was so much easier than I thought, but then I did do it with video and not stills. I think if I had been doing a higher magnification one, and not just four panes, I'd have printed a map of the moon out and indicated on that map where the boundaries of each pane was, and then make sure I'd got sufficient overlap. I might have another go sometime with either a Powermate on the DSLR or using the ZWO (and the awful laptop)... Microsoft ICE has to be the easiest software I've ever used - I just selected the files to load up and that was it, it did the rest! JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Very impressed James ! Good detail and focus spot on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Smashing shot James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devil74 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 That is an absolute belter J...you should be proud of yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulG Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 This is excellent James, very nice indeed, cant wait to the powermate/DSLR version. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T A WOW Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I like that. Very sharp image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tibbz2 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 That is awesome Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stovesy Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Stunning image. Well worth the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 Pete, the awful thing is it was hardly any work! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foundaplanet Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Good stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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