First four days on the Moon

Now I can cook mini-Moons fast and reproducibly :) The only critical ingridient is the weather.

 

Acquisition time (start of the session):

as indicated, around 21:05-21:15 MSK (UT+4)

Image orientation: as in the sky with possible minor tilts

Equipment: Canon EOS 60D with Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM backed with EF 2x III extender handheld (plates 1 and 2) or on photo-tripod with ball-head (3 and 4). IS was always on.

Aperture (effective): 63,5 mm

Focal length: 400 mm

Tv 1/250-320 sec

Av f/6,3

ISO 400

Capturing software: N/A

Exposures: ~20 of 100-150 (it depends)

Processing:

1) Contrast curve for Raw images was set to Linear, brightness adjusted to +1-1,3EV, the sharpness and NR set to 0 in Canon DPP;

2) Images were pre-cropped to 1024x1024 and exported as 16-bit .TIFFs and stacked in AS!2.

3) deconvolution (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, Cauchy type PSF, 0,9 units, 6 iterations) in AstraImage Pro 3;

4) collaging was made in Photoshop.

 

Note: third and fourth panels were mistakenly taken @365 mm focal length, so I have used DRIZZLE in AS!2 to salvage the resolution, and after measuring the diameter of resulting lunar disk, had calculated the ratio for downsampling. Anyway, the sequence doesn't hold the reliable information about the apparent size of the Moon :(

Done