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This is a two-panel mosaic of todayās sun in white light, artificial color. From SpaceWeather.com āSUNSPOT NUMBERS AT A 20-YEAR HIGH: For the second month in a row, the monthly-average sunspot number is cruising toward a 20-year high. The current value, around 230, would eclipse every month since Sept. 2001, which occurred during the peak of old Solar Cycle 23. The current cycle (Solar Cycle 25) was not supposed to be this strong, and it may become even stronger before Solar Max is finished.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC planetary camera, glass solar filter, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO IR/UV filter, ZWO 0.5x focal reducer, best 20% of 2000 frames, Autostakkert+Registax, unguided, focus with a ZWO EAF, captured using SharpCap 4.0, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Image Date: August 23, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
The crater Piccolomini photographed on April 2, 2017 ā The crater is named after 16th century Italian Archbishop and astronomer Alessandro Piccolomini. It is 88 kilometers in diameter and 4,500 meters deep. The main peak rises to a height of 2.0 kilometers above the surrounding floor.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12ā LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. 10k frames, stacked the best 500. Photographed on April 2, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Best 50% of 3,000 frames in Autostakkert.
Wavelets - Registax 6
Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches.
Good transparency, Average Seeing, Pickering Scale = 5.
Celestron CPC800XLT
ASI120MC-S Camera
Shorty 2X Barlow
Telescope: Celestron 8SE
Camera: Celestron Skyris 132C with Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
Image source: 8000 frame AVI video (5% frames used): processed with PiPP, Autostakkert, Registax, and PS.
Date: 07/4/2023
Venus angular diameter is 35.63 arcseconds and is 28.9% illuminated.
The Moon from Austin, Texas, just 7 hours before full on 2018-04-29 06:02 UT. Transparency and seeing were a challenge, but the prospect of cloudy skies all the next week were great motivation. Lucky image stacking pulled out a good image using the best 8 of 96 images shot. Questar 1350/89mm with a Sony a6300 at prime focus. Exposed for 1/60 sec at ISO 100. Stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.
I didn't think I was going to be able to see any of this occultation. It had been cloudy most of the day, but the clouds started to thin in the evening. Because of the forecast, I hadn't planned to go to campus to try to photograph it from there. Instead, as I saw I might be able to get something, I got my Coulter Optical 10" Dobsonian out of the garage and held my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra up to the eyepiece. The eyepiece was a 14 mm ultra-wide FOV from Meade. I started taking video, trying to hold my phone in place while nudging the scope along.
There were plenty of parts of that video that were unusable, and there were still a lot of high clouds. After chopping up the video to get segments to run through AutoStakkert, I settled on these four times. From left to right, these represent the view at 2023-01-31 043346 UT, 043505 UT, 043600 UT, and 043601 UT. The first two are stacks of about 100 frames, while the last two images are stacks of about 10 frames. That makes the longer stacks a bit over 3 times less noisy than the shorter ones. Compare the details in the craters and mountains in the first two images with the last two.
The two most prominent craters in the image are Copernicus in the south (toward the bottom) and Plato in the north. We also get about half of Mare Imbrium and half of Mare Serenitatis. One thing that stood out to me is the one illuminated mountain beyond the terminator. It looks like this is Promontorium Laplace, a 2.6 km high peak at the edge of Sinus Iridum.
After stacking, I did sharpening in PixInsight, then used Photoshop to align the images in this arrangement.
Lunation: 9.32 days
Illumination: 74.5%
Distance: 393300 km
Altitude: 75Ā°
First good Jovian moon capture for me! Pretty good seeing conditions tonight allowed for a great view of the cloud bands and Great Red Spot, as well as the moons of Io (top) and Europa (bottom). Not sure what the dark patch is at top left of the planet, maybe a processing/stacking error.
Two minutes of video captured at 45 frames per second, using a ZWO ASI120MC camera with 2x barlow, Celestron C8 scope and CGEM mount.
Captured in FireCapture.
Stacked in AutoStakkert, processed in Registax and LightRoom.
Sol RegiĆ³n Activa 12863
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
CƔmara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1Ā¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1Ā¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-09-03 (3 de septiembre de 2021)
Hora: 14:10 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
VĆdeo: 3 minuto
ResoluciĆ³n: 1552x1042
Gain: 61 (11%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 10830
Frames apilados: 12%
FPS: 60
Sensor temperature= 41.2Ā°C
2021 - January 1st
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f13 250iso 1/125s. Best 15% of 600 frames. Processed with Autostakkert and Darktable on Linux.
Kept best 5% of 2000 frames
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Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz DenoiseAI
As I was wrapping up imaging on the morning of 2019-06-29, there was a low hanging waning crescent moon in the east. Is it possible to image the moon with a HyperStar and an Atik 314L+ camera through a Celestron Edge HD 925? When I had tried with the moon closer to full, I could not get the exposure short enough. A waning crescent reflects a lot less light toward the Earth. Will it work now?
The sunlit portion is a stack of 2 ms exposures, while the Earthlit portion is a stack of 1.6 s exposures. Each stack was saved as an AVI that was processed in AutoStakkert. Final compositing and processing in PS CS 5.1.
I think I actually like the individual components better, but it's always fun to try this and see how it comes out. I think lots of intermediate length exposures would be needed for a smooth transition.
500 frames. Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 telescope and Celestron CGEM mount.
Captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.
The Full Wolf Moon passing in front of Mars (occultation) on Monday evening. This coincided with Mars closest approach to earth on Jan 12.
Occultation takes place when a celestial body with a greater apparent diameter passes in front of a body with a smaller apparent diameter. For example, when the moon passes in front of a star or planet. The occultation of the Sun by the Moon is called a solar eclipse.
Credit: www.starwalk.space.com
This is a composite image of Mars' path taken at one minute intervals. (18:51:45 through 20:40:19MST)
10ms exposures, 3.2 frames per second for 10 seconds every minute. 50% stacked. Acquired with Sharpcap 4.1, processed in Autostakkert 4, IMPPG and Photoshop.
Imaging equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWO2600 camera
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with ASI120MM camera on an EQ5 Pro tracking mount on a permanent pier. Best 40% of a 2,000 frame video stacked in Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer
NƩbuleuse planƩtaire de la Lyre, rƩpertoriƩ M57 dans le catalogue Messier.
Newton 400 et camƩra Zwo ASI224MC. Empilement Autostakkert3 et finitions photoshop.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera + Powermate 5x Barlow.
Best 50% of a 2,000 frame video, stacked using Autostakkert! 3.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono camera
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO Red Filter (Filter Wheel)
40% of 3,000 frames
Software used - FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/400 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 35 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
Saturn without a telescope...Processed 37 seconds 4K video,
Processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert!, Registax wavelet processing(3x Drizzled)
Tracked using iOptron Skyguider pro mount
Nikon Coolpix P1000 at 3000mm
Cassini Division is also visible
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked with Autostakkert 2. No filters used. Average seeing but most frames had light fast moving cloud in them which causes stacking problems due to the varying brightness of each frame. Registax 6 failed to achieve a clean stack due to this I think. Could have easily removed the tinges of false colour but liked it better this way . None of the single frames had any false colour whatsoever so putting this down to seeing and cloud. Going to check the ED80's focuser alignment tomorrow though all the same as haven't checked it for 3-4 years :-) The Lens cell is not collimatable on this scope.
Quark image of today's happening on the Sun featuring two sunspot groups - ARs 2573 and 2576 - and a complex and large prom/filament.
Acqusition time: 09.08.2016 around 09:20 MSK
TIS DMK 23U274 via Daystar Quark on Meade series 6000 80 mm ED triplet
6 panels, 145 out of 1000 frames per panel were stacked in AS!2, stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 10 iterations). Contrast enchancement masking-blending, aggressive coloration and composing were done in PS.
Last nightās first quarter moon from the observatory
Tech Specs: Orion 8ā RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, best 20% of 1000 images, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in AutoStakkert and Registax. Image Date: April 15, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: DeepSkyStacker Ā· AutoStakkert! Ā· photoshop
Accessorio: 2.5x barlow
Data:14 Novembre 2020
Ora: 23:04
Pose: 2862
FPS: 30,00000
Lunghezza focale: 3750
Seeing: 4
Trasparenza: 8
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK around 10:30pm GMT
Equipment:
8" Ritchie-Cretien telescope with 0.75 focal reducer and Canon 1100D
ISO-800 1/800 second exposure
Processing:
Best 49% of 169 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Adobe Lightroom, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer
Shot through thick haze
This lunar image is a composite of 10 frames taken with a DSLR and telescope, stacked, combined, and sharpened using AutoStakkert 3.1.4 and Adobe PhotoShop.
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 110mm f/7
Reducer: Astro-Tech 0.8x
Camera: Modified Canon 450D (XSi)
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Composited Frames: 10
Post-Processing Software: AutoStakkert 3.1.4, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Maurolycus crater is 70.8 miles (114km) in diameter and 2.9 miles (4.7km) deep. It is one of the more prominent lunar craters in the southern highland region that is shows multiple overlapping crater impacts. Just to the southeast is a pair of overlapping craters, that appears to me at first glance as a giant footprint, are Barocius and Barocius B (the heel).
The outer walls of Maurolycus are tall, wide, and terraced, most notably in the eastern part. To the southeast the rim is lower and the crater is joined to what has the appearance of an overlain crater rim. Craters Maurolycus F and Maurolycus B lie across the northwest rim. The northwestern part of the crater floor is more rugged than the remainder. The other sections of the floor are relatively level, with a complex of central peaks and a pair of craterlets. The small crater Maurolycus A sets right on the southern part of the rim.
Image is the best 25% of 3000 frames processed with Autostakkert, followed by Registax 6 and Photoshop CC 2015.
Telescope=Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS
Camera=ASI120MC-S
Shorty 2X Barlow
As the night sky refuses to cooperate, the extra sleep allows more effort on solar imaging.
NW limb of the sun taken yesterday. Decent seeing but the challenge is the sun is only at 28 degrees altitude. This means lots of atmosphere to image through. This is the best 180 frames out of 3,000 frames.
Learning more and more about Quark imaging via experimentation.
Equipment details:
Orion 80mm refractor
Quark Chromosphere filter
ZWO2600MM Pro using ROI
Rainbow RST135
Processed in Autostakkert, IMPPG and Photoshop
Despite the few passing clouds the seeing in this occasion and transparency were good. I changed a little my processing of the image. This was 5000 images in Lum and 3000 in each of the R,G and B channels. I have several more files to process still. Capture with ASI120MM camera and Astronomik Type II RGB filters. Celestron C11 SCT on CGEM mount. There is a Crayford with a motorized focuser on the back of the SCT. Captured using Firecapture, alignment and stacking in Autostakkert, used Registax for wavelets. Couple of adjustments in Photoshop Elements. De rotation was done using Winjupos as well as LRGB recombination. Very humid conditions, constant dew especially when the battery of the dew shield died around 3AM.
Yesterdays solar prominence continues to put on a wonderful show. Here is a view from earlier this afternoon from Pennsylvania. The inset Earth image is for a "rough" comparison of size.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 500 frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 30 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Saturno 2020-10-07 - 20:37 T.U.
Seeing tirando a malo.
5 tomas de 180 segundos
Telescopio: Takahashi Mewlon 180/2160 f12 Dall Kirkham
CƔmara: ZWO ASI290MC
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter
Accesorios: ADC ZWO
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop
Fecha: 2022-07-25 (25 de julio de 2022)
Hora: 02:34 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
VĆdeo: 5 tomas de 180'' (15' en total)
ResoluciĆ³n: 400x400
Binning NO
Gain: 300 (50%)
FPS: 45 + 45 + 49 + 51 + 51
Exposure: 21.84 + 21.84 + 19.34 + 20.35 + 20.35ms
Frames: 8235 + 8236 + 9305 + 8840 + 8840
Frames apilados: 10% + 15% + 15% + 12% + 8%
Sensor temperature: 29.7Ā°C
This is probably my last record for Saturn this year. Greetings, great lord of the rings, see you next year!
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, WinJUPOS and Fitswork.
@LopesCosmos
4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert then merged with Phot0Shop.
2400mm f/12 1/125s 400 ISO 104-9887-9
3600mm f/18 1/125s 800 ISO 104-9890-2
4800mm f/24 1/125s 1250 ISO 104_9893-5
6000mm f/30 1/125s 1600 ISO 104_9896-8
104_8427-32 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert. PhotoShop used to brighten moons and increase contrast of planet.
Taken from Oxfordshire UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount on a fixed pier.
209 images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs then the best 66% of them was stacked using Autostakkert! 2, processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone, and wavelets sharpened in Registax 6.
Cropped from original full disc image
Our star in hydrogen-alpha at 04:31 UT on 2022 May 22, featuring a chromospheric disk loaded with features. A large sunspot group, AR3014 (in close up) is prominent. Many prominences are visible around the edge, indicative of elevated solar activity.
Lunt 102mm solar telescope with ZWO ASI174MM video camera; frames selected and stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelet sharpened in RegiStax 6 and colour added in Photoshop CS5.
My photography
Before the Jupiter and Saturn's Great Conjunction
Using the full camera field resolution.
1936Ć1096
Without merging
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Celestron CPC 800
ZWO ASI290MC
Focal Reducer F 6.3
2500 Frames
At speed of 80 F/S
Stacked using
Autostakkert
Registax
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
4 RGB runs (60s and 21,000 frames per filter) in FireCapture
Preprocessing in PIPP
Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Finnishing in Photoshop
9 panel mosaic captured this morning (July 19 2014) between 5:50 and 6:10 am. Each panel is best 70% of 1,000 frames processed with Autostakkert. Very little wavelet filtering done with Registax 6. Hand assembled and finalized with Photoshop 7.
Camera - ASI034MC
Telescope - Orion XT8-i
Dual Axis Cylindrical Bearing eq platform.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus in poor seeing conditions as moon very low in the sky. Stacked 15 images out of 40 taken with Autostakkert 2, wavelets done in Registax 6 using the non-linked variety. No colour boost on this one as false colour present due to atmospherics.
Saturn
The lord of the rings on a night with less unfavorable seeing than usual around here.
"Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system. Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings ā made of chunks of ice and rock ā but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium". Source: NASA solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/ (To view the article, click on "More" at the bottom of the site)
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 Reflector Telescope with Onstep and ZWO EAF Electronic Focuser, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, Svbony UV/IR Cut Filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, WinJUPOS and PixInsight and Fitswork.
@LopesCosmos
I decided to go back to basics and use my camera and a tripod for this beautiful moon.
Canon RP
Canon RF 100-400mm
400mm @f/8.0
70 images stacked in AutoStakkert
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
40 single shot RAW images 1/500s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Nikon D780 at prime focus.
Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6.
Final processing with G.I.M.P & Adobe Lightroom..
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
The waning gibbous Moon early Christmas eve. Taken in Austin, Texas, on 2018-12-24 04:54 UT. The same data was used for my earlier crop of the eastern limb of the Moon. Questar 1350/89 mm telescope and Sony a6300 camera at prime focus and exposed for 1/50 sec at ISO 100 f/15.
The best 8 of 108 images stacked in AutoStakkert, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
Tonight's perigee full Moon is the largest of 2018. It lies at only 356565 km (compared with about 400000 km average) and covers an angle across the sky of 33.51 arcminutes diameter compared with 30 arcminutes (half a degree) normally.
This is the best 50% of frames from a 5000 frame video recorded at 2.071ms exposure per frame.
Stacked in AutoStakkert! 3.0 with Gaussian wavelet enhancement in Registax 6.0
William Optics ZenithStar 71 mm aperture refractor telescope, 420 mm focal length f/5.9 with blue filter. Ioptron ZEQ25GT tracking mount.
ZWO ASI174 mm CMOS camera
I have acquired red and green data and will try to combine into a full colour RGB image later.
I embarked on a mammoth lunar imaging session on 10th February so I could produce an animation showing the sunrise over some prominent craters. I've already shared the video I created with the data but am now sharing the still images. If you didn't see the animation you can watch it here:
I was imaging from15:45 UT until 22:30 UT and during that time the Moon changed its illumination from 69% to 72%.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera through a Celestron 3x Barlow. A 2,000 frame video was shot with SharpCap and depending on the quality graph I stacked either 50 or 25% of the frames using Autostakkert! 3. Processing with Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Saturn on the night of August 6th. Saturn reached opposition on July 20th this year (less than a week after Jupiter). A total of 5,671 frames from 3 videos shot at a gain setting of 80% and at an exposure of 0.058343 seconds were used to make this composite image. Saturn's moons were brought out by processing all the video frames and blending the stacked result with the first processing. The moons you can see are Titan (bottom left), Rhea (centre left) and Dione (centre right). The final picture was resampled to make it larger while maintaining image quality as much as possible.
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert and Registax
Post-processed in Photoshop
PLANET
5,671 stacked video frames at 30 fps
Gain - 80%
Exposure - 0.058343 seconds
Total integration - 5 minutes and 48 seconds
MOONS
11,960 stacked video frames at 30 fps
Gain - 50%, 80%, 100%
Exposure - from 0.041978 to 0.058343 seconds
Total integration - 15 minutes and 48.5 seconds
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC camera
x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)
Been a while since I've shot the ISS, and this is my first decent non-transit photo of it in years! Lucked out with clear skies, [an 83 degree pass](i.imgur.com/zZTD2KZ.png), and average seeing according to astrospheric. I captured 10,000 frames of raw video which filled out ~20GB of space. Thanks to my hand tracking 1[10 of the 10,208 frames contained the ISS](i.imgur.com/129xyrA.gifv), and I ultimately used a passthrough of 30 consecutive frames for stacking the final image (seen at the end of the gif). [For those curious these are the vehicles docked to the ISS at the time of the photo](i.imgur.com/xDrP9D0.png). I think for future flyovers I'll up the exposure a little, and try to better focus and work out some astigmatism in the mirror that I've noticed previously. Captured on January 18th, 2022 from my bortle 6 driveway.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* Meade Lightbridge 12" Dobsonian
* ZWO ASI 290mc
* ZWO 850nm IR pass filter
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:**
* Exposure - 1ms
* Gain - 200
* Average framerate- 68fps
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using Sharpcap
**Stacking:**
* PIPP to isolate the frames containing the ISS and convert them to .tiff
* Autostakkert to stack the best 7 frames of a passthrough of 30 frames (autosharpened)
**PixInsight Processing:**
* DynamicCrop
* Curves to brighten the ISS a little
* UnsharpMask for slight sharpening
* TGVDenoise for slight noise reduction
* IntegerResample to upscale image 2X (this doesn't actually add in any details)
* Annotation