93 Pane Panoramic (of sorts)

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I was dancing on the moon one day...
with my 1300mm mirror lens ...
And this time I finished the job


Skymax 102, QHY5v (Camera), HEQ5 controlled by a game pad

Using a 2x Barlow (TC), I shot 93 panes of 350 frames each, stacked each avi in Registax, took the combined image to iMerge, made a mosaic, and finished in GIMP. The lines appear to be related to the gain of the camera, it was misty, so I had to increase the gain, and the lines got worse... I'm not sure what can be done about them... perhaps shooting darks and flats will help :thinking:



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And a couple of craters...

Clavius
clavius.jpg


Copernicus
Copernicus-1.jpg


Gassendi (diameter 110Km) - I tried an experiment, this is using a 5x barlow (TC) for a focal length of 6500mm (with crop factor that makes it an equiv fl of 55250mm) :nuts::nuts:
gassendix5.jpg


Hope you like them.
 
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Wow, very impressive. I would love to know how many miles across that crater is in the last shot. I'm sure it's probably impossible to tell.
 
Impressive. Have you had it printed?
 
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ScarySquirrel said:
Wow, very impressive. I would love to know how many miles across that crater is in the last shot. I'm sure it's probably impossible to tell.
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Thanks, it's about 65 miles across.

Markk said:
Impressive. Have you had it printed?
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Thanks Mark... It took me all day yesterday to process the 93 avi's into the single frames and to mosaic it... not had a chance to print it yet.
 
John, that is one seriously impressive project you set yourself. and boy was the effort worth it. an absolute cracker! (y)
 
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Very nice John, I need to get back out with the scope, just not getting the time of late, been on night shift most of this year so far :bang:
 
Very nice, i like the bottm left hand corner of the first shot, the shadow looks so good....
 
Thanks very much everyone.

Andrew, that's the joys of Astrophotography... it all takes a lot of time and work and frustration.

That's a shame Stuart, hope you get a chance with it soon. Mars is at it's best for a while tonight... I'm hoping to have a bash at silly focal lengths over the weekend... Be good if I could get it at 6500mm..
 
Glad you kept at it - that is fabulous ! Full size is :eek::clap:
 
Thanks very much everyone :D
 
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