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| − | + | <td><div align="center" span class="main_sm">Image Credit: [mailto:pablolonnie@yahoo.com.mx Pablo Lonnie Pacheco Railey]</div></td> | |
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| − | + | <p class="story" align="center"><b>Magnificent Moon! </b></p> | |
| − | + | <p class="story" align="left"> Its impossible to take a single image of the Moon that shows topography across the entire Earth-facing side. | |
| − | + | Pablo Lonnie Pacheco of Monterrey, Mexico has responded to this impossibility with the most spectacular piece of | |
| − | + | image processing I have ever seen. He has compiled this mosaic of the Moon by splicing together more than 150 | |
| − | + | frames from the [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/ Consolidated Lunar Atlas]. The small version | |
| − | + | above does not do justice to Pablo's achievement - immediately click on the image above to see his full size | |
| − | + | mosaic. Isn't it stunning! I predict that this will be the standard image of the Moon in all future textbooks. | |
| − | + | Congratulations, Pablo! </p> | |
| − | + | <p><b>Technical Details:</b><br> | |
| − | + | Pablo writes: <I>This image was created combining more than 150 pictures downloaded from the | |
| − | + | [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/ Consolidated Lunar Atlas] site. The 61 inch NASA | |
| − | + | telescope was used for this work. Each image was selected so the sun was low in the horizon, | |
| − | + | bringing up the most detail from the surface. It was necessary to correct each image because of | |
| − | + | librations and the distance factor (apogee and perigee). The mosaic was done in Photoshop 6.0, | |
| − | + | making sure that the orientation of the image was correspondent with the 0° in longitude and | |
| − | + | latitude, at the center, as if no libration was visible at all. I used a map of the moon as a | |
| − | + | template. This map appeared in the book "Stars and planets" by Antonin Rukl in a Spanish version. | |
| − | + | Of course I also have the Atlas of the Moon from the same author, but the first book was good enough | |
| − | + | to make sure the coordinates were right. As I used more than 150 separate images, I was able to | |
| − | + | scale, rotate and distort or spherize each one fairly well. (It was more tough near the limb) | |
| − | + | The software permits working with a semitransparent image, so I was able to work closely on each | |
| − | + | image. I tried also to be faithful to the albedo features. It took me 5 weeks working up to 12 hours | |
| − | + | per day (resting Saturday and Sunday)...to much time...but I'm in love with the final image.</i> </p> | |
| − | + | <p class="story"><b>Related Links:</b><br> | |
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[http://www.mega-cosmos.com/galleries/lonniepacheco.htm Galeria de Pablo Lonnie Pacheco]</p> | [http://www.mega-cosmos.com/galleries/lonniepacheco.htm Galeria de Pablo Lonnie Pacheco]</p> | ||
| − | + | <p class="story"> <b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> RA9</p> | |
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| − | + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br> | |
| − | + | [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Charles A. Wood]</p> | |
| − | + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Technical Consultant:</b><br> | |
| − | + | [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis]</p> | |
| − | + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>A service of:</b><br> | |
| − | + | [http://www.observingthesky.org/ ObservingTheSky.Org]</p> | |
| − | + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Visit these other PODs:</b> <br> | |
| − | + | [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Astronomy] | [http://www.msss.com/ Mars] | [http://epod.usra.edu/ Earth]</p></td> | |
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Revision as of 17:17, 4 January 2015
Magnificent Moon!
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Image Credit: Pablo Lonnie Pacheco Railey |
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Magnificent Moon! Its impossible to take a single image of the Moon that shows topography across the entire Earth-facing side. Pablo Lonnie Pacheco of Monterrey, Mexico has responded to this impossibility with the most spectacular piece of image processing I have ever seen. He has compiled this mosaic of the Moon by splicing together more than 150 frames from the Consolidated Lunar Atlas. The small version above does not do justice to Pablo's achievement - immediately click on the image above to see his full size mosaic. Isn't it stunning! I predict that this will be the standard image of the Moon in all future textbooks. Congratulations, Pablo! Technical Details: Related Links: Tomorrow's LPOD: RA9 |
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