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Moon - 6 panel mosaic, DavidLJ

Moon - 6 panel mosaic

Moon - 6 panel mosaic, DavidLJ

Moon - 6 panel mosaic

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Ah yes, yet another gibbous Moon shot! But I think this image shows what can be done with quite modest equipment. The OTA is perhaps best described as a very low cost but good beginner's 'scope and the colour camera is one of the new breed of comparatively inexpensive CMOS combined video/still imaging units. The video for each of the 6 panels was 150 frames long but, due to the camera's large imaging size (3020 x 2048 pixels), that produced a file size that was too big for Registax6 to handle. So each video was cut back to 100 frames and, because of the poor "seeing" when imaging, in each case no more than 20 frames were good enough to be included in the final stack.

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Moon - 6 panel mosaic, DavidLJ