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Alan Smallbone | all galleries >> Galleries >> Astrophotography > Full moon mosaic
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Nov. 4, 2006 Alan Smallbone

Full moon mosaic

Laguna Beach, CA

This is a 22 panel mosaic of the full moon. Each panel is made from a stack of 10-50 images to help bring out detail and average seeing conditions. The panels were then assembled in MaximDL, there are a couple of slight misalignments because of data from two different passes at imaging the moon. Overall it took over 3 hours to gather the data and then several hours to process and evaluate then several more to put the puzzle together. Taken with a Vixen VC200L 8" 1800mm f9 cassegrain telescope and a Meade DSI Pro II with an Astronomik H-alpha filter. On a Losmandy G-11 on my deck in Laguna Beach, not the greatest location for imaging.

Meade DSI Pro II with Astronomik Ha,Vixen VC200L, 1800mm f9

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