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Moon image of 2020-12-20 projected on a rotating sphere, Ferry

Moon image of 2020-12-20 projected on a rotating sphere

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Moon image of 2020-12-20 projected on a rotating sphere, Ferry

Moon image of 2020-12-20 projected on a rotating sphere

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Workflow:

1-Created a mosaic of 4 stacks of the 5% best frames of 30 second AVIs

2-Projected the resulting mosaic to an equirectangular map using WinJUPOS

3-Edited the map in Photoshop (removing axes and labels, filling white areas with darker gray)

4-Projected the equirectangular map onto a sphere using the tools on maptoglobe.com

The backside of the Moon was left a uniform grey color. Due to the Moon phase on 2020-12-20 part of the projected semi-sphere is dark.

This is my first attempt at creating a rotating image with my astrophotography data, just to see if it could be done easily.

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