the moon
 

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.

http://www.dslreports.com/speak/slidesh ... PTk5OTk%3D

that looks amazing. I was surprised when I saw the image, that it was taken with a telescope from this planet by you. +1

Right-click > Set as desktop wallpaper

rock:

Anti, that is totally fucking impressive.

Well done. beer:

same here, that is awesome work Anti beer:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark, ... 9#16822681
that you also?

[quote="Sgt. Paine":dbe6c]http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681~days=9999#16822681
that you also?[/quote:dbe6c]
i thought anti's name was adam...... oOo:

I think kyle just found that and posted it?

Yeah, he's not ripping it.

Its from this dudes site
http://ncarboni.home.att.net/Astrophotography.html

[quote="Art Attack":9bab7]I think kyle just found that and posted it?[/quote:9bab7]

hah yeah, i should have put that little blurb in quotations.

<strike>There's a</strike> There was a partial eclipse of the moon tonight.

lookin sexy

oh lol wiked

[quote="Art Attack":d6915]I think kyle just found that and posted it?[/quote:d6915]

ditto

[quote=Jotun]i thought anti's name was adam...... oOo:[/quote:879c1]kyle.



adam = blueasachau.