Moon Mosaic 06.06.2003

Image at 30% of initial size - sharpened &unsharp mask

Location: Paderborn/Germany - +8°45'23''e 51°43'13''n
Date: 06.06.2003 - ~22:45
Moon at alt +30°55', az +253°25'
Seeing: good or above

Moon mosaic done with 1000mm f10 "russian barrel" maksutov and Philips ToUcam 740. Several slices of the moon have been recorded in "drift by" method (scope mount fixed, earth rotation moves subject). Video format 640x480 pixel, about 2GB of raw data. AVI hacked into single frames with home grown software, patches aligned and level adjustment in PS..

Higher image resolutions for increased level of detail:

Image at 50% - 1061x1038 pixel, 183KB - sharpened & unsharp mask

Image at 75% - 1586x1528 pixel, 281KB - sharpened & unsharp mask

Image at 100% - 2122x2076 pixel, 328KB - unprocessed as reference

Layout of source patches

Equipment used

Equipment used:

1000mm f10 "russian barrel" maksutov
Manfrotto (Bogen) photo tripod&head
Philips ToUcam 740k
1 1/4" cam adaptor

Changes on 10.06.2003:

Added 75% sized version
resharpened all image versions except full size version
full size version left unprocessed now as reference

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Last change of this page: 10.06.2003