So, turns out that manipulating many images, rescaling rotating and moving squillions of moon fragments all at once is rather RAM intensive. Or at least it was with GIMP. Several evenings of 100% memory usage for "this program is not responding" later and Operation Sandra Voi is not looking very healthy. That and the fact that I now have a new set of eyepieces with focal lengths greater than 10mm (which means I can see and image the whole moon at once), means that I shall suspend the project until I can image through the telescope slightly more reliably.
Astronomy has not ended for the moment, Saturn is coming up at the moment which is looking very nice, and I have started looking for some of the Messier objects. Of course they are all far too dim to be photographed, so no nice images.
Anyway, onward to the next crazy project!
