goodcase Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight. I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20. Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop. Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function. Click here for picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Thats pretty awesome cool looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudworth Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Amazing. Absolutely Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdodson Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 omg that's gorgeous. Thanks for the new background :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpine Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 wow very awsome !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelonia Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 That will be on my 24" Wide Dell in a few. Thanks!! Got more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondefaoite Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacey Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 awesome. if only it was 1920x1200 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viserov Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Methinks a new background is in order... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Awesome, thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyB Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Thursday's Astronomy picture of the day. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html A new pic every day. Some are my fav background pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Allen Veteran Posted September 8, 2006 Veteran Share Posted September 8, 2006 ****ing cool beans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Man that's wicked! Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung1616 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I like, a lot !!! Cody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macro Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Saw this on Digg a few days ago, but thanks for the linkage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 That' lovely. :drool: Absolutely beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamNeeds Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Very impressive. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leovanham Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 nice :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Amaaaaaaazing........! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticben Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I wish he hadn't saturated it so much - I'd love to see such a clear picture of the moon without the evident photoshopping of the stars, etc. It's still awesome though as a wallpaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStoo Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 That is really amazing, most impressive! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dheaddy Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Incredible detail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 trully stuning! never seen such amazing colors on the moon. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myNando Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 WOW! Gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samg Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 WOW. thats amazing. Is there a full size version kicking about? Set as my background now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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