Registered: January 2012 Location: Amherst, Ohio, USA Posts: 30
This mosiac was a huge project. I started out by capturing 3 images. I called them left, center and right. Each was shot back to back and consisted of 4,000 frames each. Since my Canon 40D only captures at a rate of ~ 20fps, it took about 4 minutes to capture each image.
Then I took each image and aligned, stacked and applied wavelets in Registax 6.
Then I opened each image in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and created a prominence layer by brightening to bring out the faint wispy atmosphere and saving as...
Then I opened the original images again and stretched them to bring out the washed out surface detail.
Then I merged the two, to get my final subs, which were stitched in Photoshop, then colorized and finalized.
Gear for this shoot included:
Scope: Lunt solar Systems LS60THa &B1200 w/Crayford focuser
Mount: Losmandy G-11 permanently mounted
Observatory: Skyshed POD XL3
Optical: 2.5x Powermate
Software:
Capture: EOS_MOV_REC
Stack: Registax 6
Process: Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
· Date: Wed January 18, 2012 · Views: 913 · Filesize:79.6kb, 366.5kb · Dimensions: 1889 x 863 ·
Registered: January 2012 Location: Osage Beach, MO Posts: 624
Thu March 8, 2012 10:31pm
Rating: 10.00
------------------------------ James
Meade ETX 125 AT, Celestron SkyMaster 15X70 Binoculars, Canon T2i dslr, Orion Starshoot Solar System Imager IV, Meade Series 4000 eyepiece/filter set. :astronomer1:
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Registered: January 2012 Location: Rocky Mount, Missouri, USA Posts: 114
Fri May 18, 2012 5:53pm
Rating: 10.00
Lots of work, but, pic looks well worth the effort! Very good!!
Have you finished the entire mosiac? I'd love to see it!
------------------------------ Celestron C8 with dual Telrad spotters plus Celestron 102mm short tube spotting scope, Konus 1000 mm F/5 imaging Newtonian, Meade ETX60 AT Backpacker, several eyepieces, Pentax K200D with prime focus and EP projection adaptor, filter set with moon and polorization, Celestron 15x70 binos plus two other binoculars Celestron sky scout, home made sun filters, 2x 520nm lazer pointers and never enough clear sky!
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