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28/10/2009: Imaging the Moon
28/10/2009:
Today I wanted to image the Moon. I noticed that it doesn’t quite fit into the field of view of the webcam; not by a long shot. So I decided to try a mosaic. I took several separate videos with the webcam, roughly 400 frames per video. 24 of them turned out rather well and I converted them into still images using Registax. Luckily these images covered the whole visible part of the Moon. So I stitched these images together (using Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) which amazingly is free software from Microsoft!!).
I was well pleased with the result:
Here are some of the individual images used for the mosaic:
More images in the album here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chris.yesyes/20091028MoonMosaic#
Celestron, the manufacturer of my telescope also seem to like this picture. I’ve uploaded the mosaic to www.celestronimages.com and Celestron decided to put the picture on their product page for this telescope model:
http://www.celestron.com/c3/product.php?CatID=11&ProdID=57
(click on the Images tab)