7-tile mosaic, 60% waxing Moon, 183M camera
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2026 1:21 pm
A 7-tile mosaic of a 60% waxing moon, elevation 45°, captured 5th May 2025.
Hardware: Celestron C8, Altair 183M camera, Baader UV/IR-cut filter, JMI MotoFocuser.
Software: SharpCap, BiggSky.
Each tile was captured as: SER, 5440x3648, MONO8, gain=250, exposure=5ms, black level=0. Each tile 500 frames in 110s @ 5fps.
Processing: Stack (auto) + decon (Tiles 850/90, Sharpness=0.5), Mosaic (211Mb, 6600x8200), Gamma 1.5, Render CLAHE Uniform ClipLimit 0.005, UnSharpMask amount 0.25 iterations 1, Crop, Rotate, Save.
Labels added in BiggSky ([url]http:// https://biggsky.com/lunar-labels-manual.html[/url], see View -> Calc.
For BiggSky mosaic information see https://biggsky.com/mosaic.html
Dave
- Decons_Tiled_Mosaic_v1_Calc_View_8b_scaled40.jpg (934.92 KiB) Viewed 57 times
Hardware: Celestron C8, Altair 183M camera, Baader UV/IR-cut filter, JMI MotoFocuser.
Software: SharpCap, BiggSky.
Each tile was captured as: SER, 5440x3648, MONO8, gain=250, exposure=5ms, black level=0. Each tile 500 frames in 110s @ 5fps.
Processing: Stack (auto) + decon (Tiles 850/90, Sharpness=0.5), Mosaic (211Mb, 6600x8200), Gamma 1.5, Render CLAHE Uniform ClipLimit 0.005, UnSharpMask amount 0.25 iterations 1, Crop, Rotate, Save.
Labels added in BiggSky ([url]http:// https://biggsky.com/lunar-labels-manual.html[/url], see View -> Calc.
- Decons_Tiled_Mosaic_v1_32b_Labels.jpg (466.06 KiB) Viewed 57 times
For BiggSky mosaic information see https://biggsky.com/mosaic.html
Dave