The Moon last night

Used a Celstron 8"SCT and a Canon 50D with a Celestron UHC-LPR filter. Focal length is 2000mm; F10, but 3200mm after the 1.6 crop of the 50D. The best 4 images out of 40 are hand stitched in Photoshop. It took 4 shots to get the entire moon.
I took ten from each angle and then used the sharpest 1 from each angle to make the mosaic.

Todd

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simply stunning. makes my 300mm attempts seem so amateur. lol nice shots.

Great work Todd!

You know you could try stacking the exposures instead of just picking the best ones. In fact, with Photoshop you could enter all 40 images and simultaneously and automatically stack them and stitch them into one big image like you made.

Stacking only helps moon shots if you're at fairly high magnifications, somewhere over about 1500 mm. You're up there, so you should see some noise reduction by stacking.

If you stack, first remove any obviously bad shots. Then leave the rest up to Photoshop; it'll take a couple of minutes at most.

Wow awesome! Looks very nice and sharp. Looks like the colour balance might be off just a tiny bit?

Troy

Prefer the first one myself...not keen on the sharp terminator in the second. Both very nice though...sharper than I've managed with my C11 so far.

excuse me... i seem to have dropped my jaw somewhere after the first image...

please PM me if found...

The Moon last night

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rnyou might need to take a day or two off after all the long days and night I know you put into getting this up.
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very nice Todd, great job!

Very nice work. Looks better than Hobble telescope.