CRESCENT MOON MOSAIC

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(Click on photo to see a larger image – go rove the moon!)

The picture shown above is a composite of an [unknown] number of images, though I think the number rests somewhere in the vicinity of 15 images.

 Images were obtained by taking a myriad of close-up shots of the moon on the lovely night of October 30, 2003. We were later distracted by the magnificence of the Aurora Borealis (see pretty Aurora pictures!), but we got some snazzy moon pictures first. The telescope is a Meade LX200 12" SCT Telescope and it was used in conjunction with an Olympus 2000Z digital camera.

This mosaic was created using Adobe Photoshop to crop, rotate, layer, composite, rotate, and otherwise fiddle-around-with the variety of images we took with the telescope. The result is what you see above.

This is only a grayscale version of the moon – using the color information from the pictures we took is too complex for my simple inner artíste.