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The Moon, big and bright, and full, was such a temptation. So Big, and so VERY VERY BRIGHT! Yikes !!! You can click on each image below for a larger view.
These images were taken through the Meade LX200R 8" telescope. The first image above was a quick 4 sub-images at F3.3. I tried to include Mars, which was parked right next door, but the moon was so bright, with the faster exposure, Mars was not there. Then I wanted detail, and expandability. The second image was at F/6.3, and consists of 30 separate sub-images. This image can expand out to a very large plot with little or no pixilation. Each image (of the 34 images above) is a stack of 20 images, with exposure at .0003 seconds each, stacked by AutoStar Envisage. The camera is a Meade DSI II Color. The mosaic stitching was done using Panorama Maker 4 Pro, by ArcSoft, and image contrast control, and sizing was done with GIMP2, v2.4.2, which is a GNU Image Manipulation Program. Wow, did I learn a lot on this one! | |||||||||||||
