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Three panel mosaic - Selenographic Moon in colour

Three panels imaged on the 21st February 2018 with a 33% waxing Moon on day 6 of that cycle.

 

Celestron Nexstar 8SE with Moonlite powered microfocuser.

Ioptron ZEQ25GT equatorial mount

ZWO ASI 174 MC Cooled running at -1c

 

Each panel was a 5000 frame video with best 50% of frames stacked in AutoStakkert!3.

 

Dark blue is titanium rich lava and dark brown is Iron rich lava in the Mare regions.

 

Separate processing of luminance (wavelets in Registax) and RGB data (saturation and vibrance in LR and PS) then combined as layers with luminance overlay in Photoshop.

 

Some Lunar 100 objects in this field:

 

L10 Mare Crisium

L12 Proclus

L16 Petavius

L25 Messier and Messier A

L31 Taruntius

L85 Langrenus rays

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Uploaded on March 1, 2018
Taken on March 10, 2018