palsing wrote:
$10,000 won't even buy a really good mount these days...

Chris L Peterson wrote:
Fortunately, high resolution lunar imaging doesn't require exceptional
equipment. You could pull this off with a few thousand dollars. The
magic in this shot was in the image processing- what you could consider
post processed adaptive optics.

I couldn't pull that off if I had unlimited funds. The good hardware
and software certainly make the work easier, but the skill, patience,
and dedication of the imager are critical. Alan gave a talk at the
first Macintosh Astronomy Workshop a couple of years back and, as I
understand it, he basically uses two pieces of software for camera
control and image processing--Astro IIDC http://www.outcastsoft.com/
for image acquisition and aligning and stacking; and Photoshop for the
finishing touches.

It's interesting to note that Alan collected the data in September,
2007, and released the finished mosaic just two days ago.

Davoud

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