The night after my birthday party the sky was again a little foggy and additionally Moon was shining like hell, so the only option was again to picture the Moon. This time I decided to create the mosaic of the total Moon’s visible surface. I succeeded in 95% as you can see above 🙂 The mosaic contains 31 single pictures that were stacked from 31 short movies of 600 frames each. 45GB of uncompressed data was collected and registered to create this single picture. Seeing conditions (that affect picture resolution) was not top-notch, but the resulting picture is pretty detailed anyway. As you can see the closer to the terminator line, the more interesting the landscape details are. But the areas where the Sun is very high above also expose some details, although they appear quite flat.
Full resolution image: https://astrojolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2013-03-23-mosaic-1.jpg
Sample single piece of mosaic looks like this:
Clear skies!
