8-Day-Moon_2017-7-2

One of the benefit of working at Telescope House is I got to borrow a display/demo 4x TeleVue powermate.

I don't image the moon as a rule but I got fed up waiting for truly dark sky's when I can get back to some deep sky stuff.

This was going to be an RGB image but as this was taken at low altitude the blue and green data was badly affected by the atmosphere, therefore I only used the red data to create a mono image as this is less affected by scattering due to its longer wave length.

If I try this again I'll try using a 2x barlow, 2x binning and reduce the file size or I might just leave this to the experts😀

 

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EQUIPMENT:-

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Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT

TeleVue 4x Powermate

ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera

ZWO Red Filter

No Cooling

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IMAGING DETAILS:-

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Moon

8 Days Old

67% illumination

16m pixel image

Gain 139

15 of 50 frames (red only)

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PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-

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AutoStakkert

PS CS2

Done