All images © Copyrighted 2000 by Craig Zerbe
               Today's Lunar Phase courtesy of the US Naval
               Observatory:

               This image of half moon was taken 04/19/02.  The
               seeing was good (7 out of 10).  This mosaic is made
               from 64 pieces each of which is made from 7 stacked
               semi-frames for a total of 448 frames used in total. I
               reviewed about 7000 frames and selected the best for
               each piece. Instead of imaging at prime focus, as I
               usually do for mosaics, I used a "special" 1.5x barlow to
               increase the focal length to about 4200mm at F15 on
               my 11" SCT.  The completed original was over
               15,000,000 pixels.  The image was processed in IRIS
               (wavelet), and Maxim DL. The final image was reduced
               to ¼ the original for a total of 3,810,000 pixels.  The
               amount of additional detail is readily evident.  You can
               look at my mosaic taken at F10 with 19 pieces 01/02/01
               for a comparison.

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