Waxing Moon
Trying to further my moon photography here. I shot this with a Tokina 500mm F/8 mirror lens. The lens is not very sharp at F/8, so I created an aperture disk to stop it down to about F/22. Shot at 1/125 sec at ISO 800. I used a weighted tripod and mirror lock up to minimize vibration. I shot about 25 RAW files. Then I used a procedure I read about on ArsTechnica. I cropped and aligned the pics using PIPP. Then I sorted and stacked the best 16 frames using AutoStakkert to reduce noise. Then I sharpened the image using RegiStax with the Wavelet Sharpen tool. Finally, I used GIMP to adjust some curves and apply some chroma NR using the G'MIC plugin.
Waxing Moon
Trying to further my moon photography here. I shot this with a Tokina 500mm F/8 mirror lens. The lens is not very sharp at F/8, so I created an aperture disk to stop it down to about F/22. Shot at 1/125 sec at ISO 800. I used a weighted tripod and mirror lock up to minimize vibration. I shot about 25 RAW files. Then I used a procedure I read about on ArsTechnica. I cropped and aligned the pics using PIPP. Then I sorted and stacked the best 16 frames using AutoStakkert to reduce noise. Then I sharpened the image using RegiStax with the Wavelet Sharpen tool. Finally, I used GIMP to adjust some curves and apply some chroma NR using the G'MIC plugin.