The Moon - 2022-04-16-05:05 UTC - Crater Tycho_Southern Lunar Hemisphere
This image is a testament to what is possible with the tools available to today's amateur astronomer. During the capture session, transparency varied between below average and poor, and seeing had similar variances. The data is so bad that some of the pieces of this 20 panel mosaic had to be manually pasted and nudged into place, because photomerge could not line up the panels. Also, the changing transparency meant that the amount of the light reaching the sensor for each frame varied. I compensated for this as best I could by adjusting the brightness, but it seems that other values probably needed to be adjusted as well.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
1000 frames for each mosaic panel captured with Firecapture.
Best 75% of frames stacked with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Photomerged and finished with Photoshop
The Moon - 2022-04-16-05:05 UTC - Crater Tycho_Southern Lunar Hemisphere
This image is a testament to what is possible with the tools available to today's amateur astronomer. During the capture session, transparency varied between below average and poor, and seeing had similar variances. The data is so bad that some of the pieces of this 20 panel mosaic had to be manually pasted and nudged into place, because photomerge could not line up the panels. Also, the changing transparency meant that the amount of the light reaching the sensor for each frame varied. I compensated for this as best I could by adjusting the brightness, but it seems that other values probably needed to be adjusted as well.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
1000 frames for each mosaic panel captured with Firecapture.
Best 75% of frames stacked with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Photomerged and finished with Photoshop