Halloween Moon 2020 (colorized)

Imaged the full moon with my current setup on 10/31/20 (Happy Halloween!). First time colorizing it, so still need to get used to lunar processing, as the acquisition and processing is vastly different from DSOs (and a LOT less time consuming!) I need to return to this once I get a larger scope, though. I'm not satisfied with the low resolution the AT65EDQ gives.

 

Equipment:

- AT65EDQ Scope

- ZWO ASI1600mm-Pro Camera

- Orion Sirius Mount (Belt-Modded)

- Chroma RGB Filters

 

Software:

- Firecapture for Acquisiton

- Autostakkert!3 for Stacking

- Registax for Wavelets

- PS and PixInsight for colors and curves

 

Acquisition:

- 1000 frames captured through each filter (RGB)

 

Processing:

- Stacked best 30% of the frames in AS!3

- Brought tiff into Registax for Wavelet sharpening

- Export to PS for color balancing

- Final curves and saturation tweaks in PixInsight

- Save

Done