Comments on: Jaw-dropping Moon mosaic

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:14:10 +0000

Absolutely stunning image Andre – well done.

By: DLC

DLC — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:27:19 +0000

Very well done!
but… why did you darken out the part where the NWO secret moon base is ? I mean, how can we carry out President Gingrich’s plan to make the moon the 51st state if we can’t see where the Enemy put it’s base ? maybe we could just email them that now all their base are ours.

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By: Andre vd Hoeven

Andre vd Hoeven — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:07:59 +0000

That’s purely a visual effect. The image was not stretched in any way. It’s probably because of the oblique view…

By: CoffeeCupContrails

CoffeeCupContrails — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:47:39 +0000

Love the bumps on the horizon! Followed that all the way to the south.

Do the craters down south look a little… stretched? Artifact of the processing or a natural optical effect? Maybe, just the lighting.

By: Herschel's back garden

Herschel's back garden — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:00:55 +0000

If you used this technique and just took pictures of the terminator region over a month you’d be able to create a picture of the moon with “modelling” all over it. With a “natural” view, such as this one, lots of detail is missing where the sun is approximately overhead.

Of course it would be quite tricky because you would also have to correct for the moon wobbling around during the course of a month.

Has anyone ever produced an image like this?

By: Bandwidth Bandito

Bandwidth Bandito — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:41:56 +0000

Hey wow, I think I can see my moonbase from here

By: Andre vd Hoeven

Andre vd Hoeven — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:15:10 +0000

Thank you all so much for your nice responses.

Larry: I have it available on A1 poster, that shows a lot of details….

Ken: deconvolution is not really sharpening, but bringing out the details that are there, but are a little blurred. You’re right you should be very careful with this….

Marisa: I think you make it too easy here. I admit that with the right conditions and equipment the imaging is not to hard, but processing after wards is still quite a big job. Making the images and mosaicing cost about 6-8 hours al together. Besides that it took about 1,5 hours of imaging with carefully making overlapping images, and making sure not to miss a single part…. It’s not too difficult, but it really costs a lot of time….

By: zAmboni

zAmboni — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:43:10 +0000

Awesome shot!

I’ve done a bunch of mosaics and know how much of a pain it can be to process them . This shot easily outclasses my best, but Andre does have a bigger scope and way better camera than I do!.

The key is seeing conditions (how steady the air is) and have a camera that can capture enough good frames to stack. Light pollution is not a factor because the moon is so bright.

I think it is sad that more people don’t do more moon imaging. The moon can be boring in that it always shows the same face and is unchanging. Most of the people who have large scopes and good cameras rather image the planets than take the time do so some lunar imaging. But when they turn their scope to the moon instead, the results can be fantastic!

I like to image the moon, but it is usually on nights that the seeing is bad enough that it isn’t worth trying to image the other planets. That is why my images aren’t as sharp as what Andre was able to get.

Below is a link to the best image I have gotten with my scope/camera….and you can see it is nowhere as near as sharp as the one posted above.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zamb0ni/5951994503

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