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Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new
      #941812 - 05/04/06 09:50 PM Attachment (30 downloads)
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This is a 5x3 mosaic of 25x0.02sec images taken with a Meade LXD75 SN6 fitted with a 2x Barlow and an LPI. The source images were combined in real-time using Envisage and saved as BMPs. The mosaic was assembled using Panorama Maker, levels adjusted and resized in Photoshop.

-John

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: jgraham]
      #942025 - 05/05/06 12:12 AM
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Good job John, have you ever used imerge for your mosaics?

Jon

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: jonbosley]
      #943047 - 05/05/06 05:48 PM
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Great shot John. Very pleasing to the eye.

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: jmcdonald]
      #943125 - 05/05/06 06:53 PM
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Love mosaics! Great shot.

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: Ricky]
      #943206 - 05/05/06 07:53 PM
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Nice job John!


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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: tnscoper]
      #943223 - 05/05/06 08:01 PM
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Outstanding image John. One of the best I remember seeing. Sharp and not over processed.

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: SEMC]
      #943639 - 05/06/06 03:10 AM
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you'r the master of mosaics, John!
Keep up the good work!

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: description]
      #943737 - 05/06/06 07:25 AM
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Your contrast and sharpness is really good John, and your frame blending is excellent.

If I were to make one suggestion, I'd have used the black eyedropper in "Levels" to set the black point in the area of sky where you can still see some of the frame transitions (at least on my monitor), so that the sky is evened out a bit better.

Great job!

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #943782 - 05/06/06 08:29 AM
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Beautiful image!

jonbosley:
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Good job John, have you ever used imerge for your mosaics?




I tried both tools this evening after reading this post. Panorama Maker won't run on my system (Windows 2003). I tried Image Assembler. Very powerful, but overkill. iMerge is quick and easy and inexpensive.

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT new [Re: Jeffrey Sugden]
      #943827 - 05/06/06 09:18 AM
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Really nice image John! I use PS' Panorama maker and it works really well for me too - a lot of people dislike it though. Don't know why...

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Re: Lunar Mosaic - May 4, 1h UT [Re: thelittleman]
      #944196 - 05/06/06 02:25 PM
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Wow John! Nice job!

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