My 1st ever tiled collage

[omaroo]

Hmmmm.... now that was an interesting exercise

Missed the center bit due to lack of time, sorry.

William Optics 66ED semi-APO
ToUcam with Bintel 2x 2" barlow
Macam for OSX 10.4
Converted .mov to .avi via RadVideo Tools
Registax
Tiled in Photoshop CS2

.... and straight to you... the viewer!

[phoenix]

Hey Omaroo

Nice collage, Shame you couldn't get the middle of it due to time, Is it hard to aline the tiles ?




Cheers Jason :pipethinker:

[omaroo]

Hey there Jason. No - it's not difficult when you do it the proper way - like I've done for this second attempt using a new set of tiles imaged this evening. I used Photoshop's PhotoMerge routines. Simple!

Cheers
Chris

http://www.omaroo.net/albums/album36/MOON_010507.jpg

[Radar]

Hey Chris,

That will look awesome on the wall. It would be massive I imagine. Nice effort mate. Love to see it when the middle is done.

Cheers for posting it.

Ray :thumbsupmate:

[phoenix]

Hey Chris

WOW That is awesome.:thumbsupmate:


Very Nice.



Cheers Jason :pipethinker:

[Caveman]

I'm always a big fan of the Moon.:welldone:

Great Work

[AstroTasmania]

Hi Chris,

Very nice 2nd shot. You need to allow approx 25-30% overlap as a rule of thumb. It is a nice challenge to keep in mind which areas you have covered!

This is perhaps the optimum way to get a really large, detailed lunar image from a small web cam chip. Also getting a sky free of clouds, which does not seem easy these days.

A future article in Sky and Space magazine will appeal to you "Lunatics" - me included.

Thanks for sharing & Clear skies...

[omaroo]

Thanks everyone - and cheers Shevill for your advice :)

It's certainly fun - and I can't wait for that article!

Cheers
Chris

[Medusa]

The 2nd one is stunning Omaroo. :yesplease:


Medusa

[Tony Leece]

Hi Omaroo, great work there mate. :thumbsupmate:
Maybe, if you haven't got photoshop, you could give this shareware program a try. Its called 'Imerge' and although i have it installed myself, haven't gotten round to using it (due to my laziness), but it is supposed to be very good.

http://www.geocities.com/jgroveuk/iMerge.html

Cheers.........
Tony.........

[Tony Leece]

Whoops..... sorry mate, i just saw that you have Photoshop CS2:duh:
But you could still give it a go, it is free after all:Chessy_Smile:
I must read posts more carefully in future:hmm:

Tony.........

[wakaleo]

Nice work Chris!

[Draig]

HI Chris,

I've only just noticed this post. Stunning image. :welldone:

Cheers Colin

[wakaleo]

I've just been looking at that second collage again. It's so good it makes me want to grab it and get moon dust up my nose and on my shirt ... Oh oh! Time for my pill again!

[omaroo]

I've just been looking at that second collage again. It's so good it makes me want to grab it and get moon dust up my nose and on my shirt ... Oh oh! Time for my pill again!


hehe...thanks fellas. Me too.... I love the moon. It's so nice to get some luck in imaging it, so thanks for the positive comments. I plan to get the 12" LX200 out of the cupboard soon and do some close-in imaging with it. Quite a difference between it and the little 66mm I used for this shot. I do have to say that the 66mm WO scope is a little gem - even the semi-APO. I can't see any purple stuff anywhere in my image, so I guess it's pretty good for a non APO. I've bought a second one now as well, so maybe I'll get to make me little binoscope yet.

I've got my eye on a 5x Barlow... so here's to the next full moon and some craters....... :)

Cheers
Chris

[Medusa]

Very Nice.



Medusa

[Radar]

That 5x barlow sounds good Chris.

[omaroo]

That 5x barlow sounds good Chris.

Hey there Ray :)

Have you used one before? I guess seeing is going to become critical. :hmm: