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Yuri_18
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Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25
      #2550770 - 07/30/08 04:24 PM Attachment (23 downloads)

Hi all,

I bring to your attention one more full lunar image taken on July, 25th, 2008 in the prime focus of 3m. Mosaic of 16 images. The full size (3315x4646, 2.8MB) is here:

http://objectstyle.org/astronominsk/Moon/Moon2008/Moon_20080725_en.htm

Regards,
Yuri

The fragment of this mosaic:

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Our team: Mikhail Abgarian (Dobermann), Konstantin Morozov, Yuri Goryachko (Yuri_18).
http://objectstyle.org/astronominsk/index_en.htm


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isramirez
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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Yuri_18]
      #2550785 - 07/30/08 04:30 PM

Superb Yuri!!! ...as always

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blackhaz
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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: isramirez]
      #2550912 - 07/30/08 05:29 PM

Top class, Yuri!

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: blackhaz]
      #2551196 - 07/30/08 07:51 PM

wow! nice detail!

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CESDewar
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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: john D]
      #2551591 - 07/30/08 11:15 PM

A magnificent effort as usual Yuri!

I especially like Sinus Iridium. And the tonal scale is superb - I just keep on blowing out the highlights, so it's nice to be reminded that it's just a matter of skill and not optics that causes that issue.

Oh, and the crispness towards the extreme edge of the moon - just outstanding!

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: CESDewar]
      #2551713 - 07/31/08 01:27 AM

Dude, you need to publish a coffee table book. Yours are some of the finest lunar images I have ever seen.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: trever]
      #2551721 - 07/31/08 01:30 AM

Stunning work again, Yuri and team. You guys are getting *BLEEP* good at these big mosaics.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: iceman]
      #2551802 - 07/31/08 03:27 AM

Simply the BEST I've ever seen!!!

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: mosheriffic]
      #2551821 - 07/31/08 04:10 AM

wow , its really great !
what was your telescope and what was your focal length ?
did you use webcam for photograph it ?

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Yuri_18]
      #2551859 - 07/31/08 05:38 AM

Outstanding work Yuri!

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: John Boudreau]
      #2552510 - 07/31/08 12:45 PM

Super work Yuri.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Yuri_18]
      #2552862 - 07/31/08 04:08 PM

Spectacular image as always.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: SkyscraperJim]
      #2552908 - 07/31/08 04:33 PM

holy smokes thats amazing! i cant quit staring at it.

great work, Yuri.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: solshaker]
      #2552924 - 07/31/08 04:43 PM

Yuri
Will please stop posting your lunar images on this forum! You're behaviour is completely unreasonable and I think you will find is again the TOC of this forum. If you look carefully at the TOC you will see that it clearly states
"no member shall post any picture of the Moon that are so utterly brilliant and breathtakingly good as to make any other member (me) think 'why the hell they should bother even thinking about imaging the said Moon'".

Please stop!!!!!

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Alan Friedman
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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Michael Morris]
      #2552937 - 07/31/08 04:51 PM

A beautiful panorama - I enjoyed it more once I flipped it around 180 degrees, but I'm old fashioned!

thanks for sharing,
Alan

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Alan Friedman]
      #2553035 - 07/31/08 05:39 PM

Thanks guys.

To kiarash:
We always give the info about the equipment on the photo. But on such a big image it is easy for small letters to get lost. Our setup:
Maksutov-Cassegrain Santel, D=230mm, F=3000mm, Unibrain Fire-i 702 CCD mono camera (IEEE-1394, 1388x1040pix, 10fps).

Regards,
Yuri

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: Yuri_18]
      #2553242 - 07/31/08 07:41 PM

Beautiful! Just like observing it through good optics.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: conus]
      #2553294 - 07/31/08 08:12 PM

Spectacular work Yuri, lovely dynamic range and not a breath of noise in the image. Well done.

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: conus]
      #2553337 - 07/31/08 08:33 PM

Yuri,
I can only add: splendid processing!! and a hard job of course!!!
Processing this level makes this job looks naturally spectacular!... I can barely spot three craterlets (at least through my monitor) on Plato...but going further would ruin the natural look you've gotten(possibly with more gain at the capture time, more image scale, or more iterations at the processing time)...CONGRATS!!
Best regards,

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Re: Hi-res full Lunar mosaic 2008/07/25 new [Re: David Rivas]
      #2553989 - 08/01/08 07:20 AM

Awesome!
What always gets me about shots like this, is the suggestion of just how many past impacts the Earth has also probably taken, long since eroded away or buried. Even if you assume half or a third the number for the sake of argument, its an incredible number of events in our past. Bombardment is not an understatement.

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