Clear night, dead tired Comet McNaught
Dec 27

Moon shot

Posted in Astronomy at 12:01 am Add comments

Quarter MoonI recently read a neat article in either Astronomy or Night Sky magazine (can’t recall which) where the author took pictures of the moon by splitting the moon into about 50 sections and then taking several pictures of each section. He then picked the best shots, stacked the shots for each section, and then spliced the 50 sections together for a really sharp image of the moon. I wanted to try this but only did 5 sections (about 8 shots in each section) for a total of about 40 shots. I used Registax to stack the images. The result is reasonable — could be better on a clearer night and with smaller sections but it was cold tonight! Click on the image for a close-up

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