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We had a one in ten years night in Sydney last week-end when the jetstream dropped to 1 knot on the whole easter coast. Got out quickly and captured frames on Jupiter, Saturn and kept shooting panels on the moon. It was a random exercise browsing along the surface with the GCC at 2.6m FL and recording interesting bits for hours. It was very still and I had a lot of fun. In the end some of the panels (~6'x4.8' fov) overlapped so I made a few unplanned mosaics. The scope was a Takahashi CN-212 at the cassegrain focus F/12.4 and the camera an ASI 120MM on my trusted G11.

Captured with Firecapture in 8bit SER files ~3000 frames each, processed in Autostakkert 3 then levels in Photoshop. I used a program called Registar to do the mosaic. It usually registers deepsky shots by matching the star patterns but in this case the pictures were so sharp it could hook onto the small craters and bright features edges highlight so it did a reasonable job.


Here are the links to the panels I stitched:







Enjoy the views.