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Petit souvenir du rapprochement Lune - Vénus de ce matin,

La lune a occulté Vénus en cours de matinée, mais ni la météo ni le timing ne m'ont permis de suivre cet évènement.

Ce sera donc une petite photo souvenir, à 400mm de focale donc avec peu de détails, mais ça reste un joli moment au sein de la mécanique céleste à photographier 😊

Exifs : Fuji XT3 + 50-140 + Doubleur de focale

200 prises de vues additionnées pour "réhausser" les détails et assemblées via PIPP et Autostakkert

Didn't think I'd get to see anything at all since it was overcast and but the clouds were thin enough at times for the h-alpha wavelength to cut through. I captured as much as I could. This is a stack of about 450 frames. I have more that I need to process and probably add on to this.

 

I have a video showcasing my gear and capture process here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLqKOOljcs

 

The image was taken with this equipment:

 

Equipment used:

* Lunt 40

* Sky-Watcher SolarQuest

* QHY5-III 178m

* FireCapture, PIPP, AutoStakkert!3, AstroSurface

* Colorization in Photoshop via curves adjustments

  

You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Oct14Solar...

  

My YouTube: youtube.com/Naztronomy.

14 teselas.

Nexstar 8Se

f6.3

Gpcam

 

Autostakkert 2, Pixinsight, Ps Cs6

Nexstar 8Se

Gpcam

CGEM

 

Autostakkert

Fitswork

Ps Cs6

 

12/Sep/17

 

Mexico D.F.

While waiting for an International Space Station transit of the moon, I decided to try to get a more detailed shot of our satellite. Assembled from 28 individual images built from the best 125 frames of 500 frame stacks. Shot with a Celestron Edge HD 925 with 0.63x focal reducer and Point Grey Flea3 GigE color camera. Each stack was run through Autostakkert to minimize the effects of seeing. Images were then processsed slightly in Pixinsight, then assembled as a mosaic in Image Composite Editor. Final touches in PS CS 5.1.

 

The moon was about 30° off the horizon during this composition, around 2019-03-14 06:10 UT.

 

Distance: 375500 km

Lunation: 7.6 days

Illumination: 48%

Ecco un’immagine del pianeta gigante ottenuta da una ripresa video mattutina durante il crepuscolo. Si vede bene la Grande Macchia Rossa vicino al bordo orientale, alcuni dettagli sulle bande equatoriali ed è visibile il satellite Io sulla sinistra in basso.Il pianeta cambia continuamente il suo aspetto a causa dell’elevata turbolenza della sua atmosfera e questo si può notare a distanza di poche settimane anche utilizzando telescopi amatoriali.

Dati:

– Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano

– Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera

– Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

– Filtro UV-Ir cut

– Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

-Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 90 secondi

– Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 50% dei fotogrammi

– Registax 6 per contrasto e luminosità

– Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

– Data e ora della ripresa: 31 luglio 2022 4:01 UTC (6:01 ora locale)

30/5 19:12 GMT -3

Dobson 8" f/6 - Canon 60D a foco primario - Apilado 25% de 16 tomas a ISO 400 - 1/800s

Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - PS y LR

La derotazione con il software Winjupos permette di ottenere buoni risultati.

 

Pianeta: Giove.

Data: 24 aprile 2017.

Diametro: 43.81"

Magnitudine: -2.44

CMI=140.0° CMII=108.8° CMIII=232.5°

Luogo: Pedara (CT).

Ora (locale): 23:35.

Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 4/5.

Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.

Barlow: 2.5x GSO.

Lunghezza focale: 4950mm

Risoluzione: 0.16"

Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.

Numero di frames acquisiti: 2847.

Numero di frames elaborati: 50% (1423).

FPS: 31.

Durata del filmato: 90 s.

ROI: 640x480

Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 3.0.14, Winjupos, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2015.

www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/16795134969/sizes/k/

Taken with a Coronado Calcium K PST / DMK41.

Forty one avi files were taken during the eclipse. Of these, the best 10% of around 400 images in each file was stacked using Autostakkert 2 or Registax 5. The images were sharpened, arranged and false coloured in Photoshop CS5.

Photographed on the early morning of January 14, 2014 with a 5-inch, f/5.2 telescope and a Sony NEX-5R digital camera.

 

Image processing was done with Photoshop CC 2014, PixInsight v1.8, and AutoStakkert! 2.

 

This image is best viewed at full size (1280 x 1080) or in the Flickr lightbox (press the “L” key and then zoom the image with a mouse click).

 

All rights reserved.

Telescopio o obiettivo di acquisizione:Bresser Messier AR 102/1000

 

Camera di acquisizione:Huawei P20 PRO

 

Software:ASTROSURFACE , PIPP x64 2.5.9 , AutoStakkert! , photoshop

 

Filtro:Baader 495 nm longpass

 

Accessorio:Shackcom Supporto universale per smartphone su oculare

 

Data:28 Maggio 2020

 

Ora: 21:18

 

Pose: 770

 

FPS: 30,00000

 

Seeing: 3

 

Trasparenza: 8

 

Risoluzione: 879x609

 

Luoghi: Terrazzo di casa (Sant'Agata li Battiati), Sant'Agata Li Battiati, CT, Italia

 

Origine dei dati: Giardino

Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM

Powermate 2X - Filter IR742

Camera: ASI224MC

Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - ICE - PS6

24.01.2018 - 20:00GMT

This evening's almost first quarter Moon (48% illuminated)

 

2 panel mosaic joined with Microsoft ICE, same image as before but processed with higher contrast.

 

Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7

Altair IMX178 Hypercam

 

Captured using - SharpCap 3.1

Best 20% of 3000 frames stacked with Autostakkert 3

Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018

Mars at 00:15 UT, 14/09/2020. 9 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 3 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 24,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V3.0.14 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.

 

meade lxd-75 sc-8

imaging source DFK 31AF03

autostakkert

lynkios (for wavelets)

I tried to photograph the "Great Conjunction," but only got this blurry image. The weather was poor for stargazing with high cirrus clouds. The sunset was spectacular, but the seeing was miserable. I used my 80mm f/6.3 refractor telescope. Focusing was a challenge since the image was jumping all over the place due to the atmosphere.

 

I first tried it with a small CMOS camera (ZWO) with a tight FOV, but the ZWO didn't want to work in the field with the computer. Time-was-a-wasting, so I switched to my trusty Canon T3i (APS-C) and a 2x tele-converter using Backyard EOS. I took AVIs and used AutoStakkert to process. This is the result. Oh well, guess I can try to stick around for the next one in 2080...

 

December 21, 2020; Leon County, Tallahassee, Florida.

 

201221_Jup-Sat_Conjunction

Location: Düsseldorf (Germany)

  

Date: June 09, 2016.

  

Seeing: 7 / 10

  

Celestron 11 on Celestron AVX mount

  

Captured at 3250 mm focal lenght

  

ZWO ASI 224mc camera

  

ZWO ADC (atmospheric dispersion corrector)

  

Processed using Autostakkert 2, Fitswork & PS CS 5/6

Taken from Oxfordshire UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. A 1,000 frame video was captured with SharpCap and the best 50% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 4. Processing was done with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. In step one of the processing I removed all of the colour, processed the image in monochrome then added false colour back in at the end using Photoshop CS2.

Luna: Cráteres Herschel, Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel y otros

Mal seeing y mucho jetstream, a ratos nubes altas o sea que condiciones bastante flojas.

 

Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-12-04 (4 de diciembre de 2019)

Hora: 20:33 U.T. (Tiempo universal)

Fase lunar: 55.5% 8.23 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minuto

Resolución: 2120 x 1338

Binning NO

Gain: 150 (29%)

FPS: 47

Exposure: 8.444ms

Frames: 2829

Sensor temperature= 23.6 °C

Frames apilados: 12%

 

While waiting for Mars to appear it seemed like a good idea to take some shots of Saturn. We managed two before it ducked behind a tree and here the two shots are combined. The extra frames made it possible to bring out even more detail so several of the bands circling the planet are visible as well as more detail in the ring system.

 

Created from 2 x 5,000 frame videos with only the frames of 75% quality or higher used

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop

 

Gain 75%

Exposure 0.056551 seconds and 0.060139 seconds

 

Equipment:

Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount

ZWO ASI120 MC camera

x2 Barlow with extension tube

Venus, the 2nd planet from the Sun, has the hottest surface temperature in the Solar System at a scorching 867°F (464°C). This is caused by a runaway greenhouse effect from the buildup of carbon dioxide. Inevitably, Earth will suffer a similar fate within a few billion years as the Sun's luminosity increases. At the rate we're going, humans will be long gone before then.

 

Because its orbit is smaller than ours, Venus goes through phases from our perspective just like the moon does. But unlike the moon, Venus grows significantly larger during the thin crescent phases as it gets closer to us (and largest at "inferior conjunction," the equivalent to new moon). I'm looking forward to documenting the phases with my new equipment over the next few months.

 

Phase angle: 61.7°

Percent illuminated: 73.7%

Apparent magnitude: -4.05

Apparent diameter: 14.93"

Distance from Earth: 1.118 AU

Altitude above horizon: 21.2° to 13.5°

Luminance: stack of 2,000 frames (best of 488,912)

RGB: stack of ~1700 frames (best of 6907)

Captured from 01:07 to 01:45 UTC (04/12/23)

Exposure 3 ms (300 FPS), Gain 150, Offset 25

 

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

Filters: Baader 685nm IR-Pass (for luminance), ZWO UV/IR-Cut (for RGB)

Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)

Capture software: FireCapture

Processing software: PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP

Passage de la Station Spatiale Internationale devant la lune, au dessus de la mer de la Tranquillité

 

Prise le 29/09/2020 à 22h44

Distance : 837 km

Taille apparente 33"arc

Durée du transit : 1.4s

Vitesse : 28.000 km/h

 

Newton SW 200/1000

Monture NEQ-5

ASI 290mm mini

Traitement Autostakkert!3 - Registax6 - Photoshop CC

Sun Spot AR2965, 2022-03-13

Captured from our backyard on Sunday March 13. Seeing was not that great, so we stacked best 5% of 5,000 frames.

Equipment details:

Orion 80mm refractor

Quark Chromosphere filter

ZWO2600MM Pro using ROI

Processed with Autostakkert!, IMPPG, and Photoshop.

 

Sunspot AR2965 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares.

 

Scientists classify solar flares according to their x-ray brightness in the wavelength range 1 to 8 Angstroms. There are 3 categories: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare. Compared to X- and M-class events, C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth.

24.01.2018 - 20:00GMT

This evening's almost first quarter Moon (48% illuminated)

 

2 panel mosaic joined with Microsoft ICE, process is more subtle.

 

Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7

Altair IMX178 Hypercam

 

Captured using - SharpCap 3.1

Best 20% of 3000 frames stacked with Autostakkert 3

Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018

This is from a series of 8 SER files recorded with a ZWO ASI224MC camera in conjunction with a 2x Barlow, ZWO ADC, and ZWO IR cut filter during a period of very good seeing. This was with the Celestron C14 at Cerritos College. Data was taken between 1009 and 1023 UT, with stacking in AutoStakkert, sharpening in PixInsight, combination of derotated images in WinJUPOS, then final touches in PixInsight and Photoshop.

Ecco la nostra Luna in un mosaico composto da 13 pannelli, ognuno dei quali è il risultato ottenuto da un filmato contenente 443 fotogrammi.

La Luna è stata fotografata la notte del 17 ottobre, poche ore prima della fase di Ultimo Quarto.

 

Dati:

Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton

Montatura Eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher

Camera planetaria QHY5L-ll-C

Filtro UV-IR cut

Sharpcap 3.2 per i 13 filmati

Autostakkert! 3.1.4, Astrosurface T5-TITANIA per elaborare circa il 50% dei fotogrammi in ciascun filmato

Autostitch per comporre il mosaico

Data e ora: 17 ottobre 2022 dalle 02:38 UTC (4:38 ora locale) alle 02:56 UTC (4:56 ora locale)

Fase della Luna: Gibbosa Calante

Frazione illuminata: 55%

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

Celestron SCT8i

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Celestron CGEM

 

Frames apiados: 2000

Df: 2000 mm

F: 10

Mal Seeining

07 Agosto 2020

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Crater Tycho

Celestron Nexstar SCT 8i

ZWO ASI120MM

 

Frames: 1000

Frames Apilados: 900

Df: 2000 mm.

F: 10

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax 6 + Fitsworks + Lr

5 Abril 2020

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

22:45BST waxing gibbous phase 97% illuminate, clear and bright, the colours came out well on this capture.

 

Altair Astro 72EDF f/6

AA IMX178C Hypercam

SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount

 

Best 15% stacked with Autostakkert 3, of 3000 frames captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2

 

Post processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop CC2019

  

Sol Regiones Activas 12993 y 12994

Buen seeing pero algunas nubes altas

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (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: 2022-04-21 (21 de abril de 2022)

Hora: 13:49 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minuto

Resolución: 1984x1558

Gain: 85 (16%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 2196

Frames apilados: 5%

FPS: 36

Sensor temperature= 32.8°C

The Sun saluted the Sunday with two flares. Both on the side facing the Earth, apparently.

Now the only form of activity to observe is a truly massive coronal mass ejection :)

 

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

 

Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD 2456726,055903 (09.03.2014, around 17:22 MSK).

Image orientation: scrambled

Equipment:

Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) coupled to Coronado PST via Baader Planetarium Hyperion Zoom 8-24 mm Mark III click-stop system eyepiece and Baader Planetarium M43-to-T2 conversion ring and mounted on photo-tripod.

Aperture 40 mm

Native focal length 400 mm

Projection zoom setting: 20 mm.

Effective focal length ~900 mm

Tv = 1/50 seconds

Av (effective) = NA

ISO 1000

Exposures: 66 (all in)

Processing: images were converted to monochrome and exported as 8-bit .TIFFs. Images were assembled into stack in ImageJ and saved as .AVI. AVI was processed in Autostakkert!2.

Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,8 units, 10 iterations) and tonemapping in Luminance HDR (Mantiuk,06, contrast factor 0,291, pre-gamma 0,515).

High-pass filtering, Shadow/Highlight adjustment and coloration made in Photoshop.

Note: time to move on. This technique is toooo time consuming and vulnerable to light bouncing somewhere in optical path...

  

I slept through my alarm, but was early enough to catch this lovely waning gibbous moon in a crystal clear sky this morning at 6:45 am local time in Austin, 2018-05-06 11:45 UT. Sony a6300 with Vivitar 200mm prime lens. Exposed at f11 for 1/640 sec at ISO 1600. Best 16 of 50 images stacked and processed in Autostakkert 3 and Lynkeos with final crop and exposure in Photoshop

quickly processed PIPP, Autostakkert and DSS. Jupiter DSLR video 2x barlow and 200mm reflector

My first attempt at photo stacking the moon.

 

Shot with Nikon Z 7, Tamron 150-600mm G2. Processed with Lightroom, PiPP, AutoStakkert!3, and Registax.

Taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow + Canon 1100D.

ISO-800 1/50 sec exp

Best 25% of 60 frames in Autostakkert! 2 then processed in Lightroom, Paintshop Pro and Focus Magic

 

This huge detached promience off the SE limb is the largest detached promience I've ever seen!

The waxing crescent Moon from Austin, Texas taken on 2019-06-08 03:33 UT. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Best 8 of 80 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure adjustments in Photoshop

Saturn 17h Sept 2024, 23:01 UT. The attached is a combination of 12 images derotated in WinJupos. Titan can be seen just below Saturn and Enceladus can just be seen transiting Saturn just below the rings to the left of centre. Each image was a stack of the best 2,500 frames from over 9,000 frame AVI's. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, ,Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

Tested new found techniques with Autostakkert and applied 1.5 Drizzle. Color alignment and wavelet filtering with Registax 6. Faint-white surface features in the 10 o'clock area are either clouds or dust.

- Skywatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Mount

- Celestron C90 + 2x barlow + Olympus OMD EM10 MKII

- Prime focus

- A 2 minutes video stacked with AutoStakkert

Target:The Sun, showing increasing sunspot activity as it moves out of solar minimum.

 

Location:12:32pm 26-03-2022, UK.

 

Acquisition:100x 1.5ms Red (best 50% of 200 frames), bin1x1, Subframe.

 

Equipment:Skywatcher 200P, EQ6RPro, Altair H183MPro, ZWO EFWmini & RGB, Baader MPCCMkII coma corrector, Solar film.

 

Software:Sharpcap Pro, EQMOD.

 

Processing:AutoStakkert, Registax, Affinity Photo, Topaz DeNoiseAI.

 

Took 4K video and used best 75% of 1200 frames. This was an experiment using old SLR lens/teleconverter with an URTH adapter and a ICE Lipo light pollution filter to try and improve contrast.

 

Conditions: Good

 

Location: Stourbridge, UK

Equipment: Olympus OMD E-M10 III.

Urth OM -> M4/3 adapter.

Vivitar 2x teleconverter.

Optomax 300mm 1:5.6 lens.

ICE LiPO filter

 

Software: PIPP, Autostakkert, GIMP

Transparency (4/5)

Seeing (3/5)

 

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, about 2 months before its 2023 opposition. 2 of the 4 Galilean moons are visible.

 

Jupiter rotates about its axis every 10 hours, making it the fastest-rotating planet in the Solar System. As a result, it is noticeably wider at the equator. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, which creates turbulence and storms along the boundaries.

 

Phase angle: 10.62°

Apparent magnitude: -2.61

Apparent diameter: 44.25"

Distance from Earth: 4.456 AU

 

Stack of 3,000 frames (best of 23,356)

Captured from 06:39 to 06:41 UTC 2023/09/03

Exposure 5 ms, Gain 350, Offset 25

 

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

Filter: ZWO UV/IR-Cut

Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)

Capture software: FireCapture

Processing software: AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. 20 image stack using Autostakkert 2. Levels adjusted to bring out the pale moon from the bright blue sky

After almost 10 days of overcast skies, finally managed to get some gaps in between the clouds. Also managed to get about 220fps for Mars using Sharpcap. Not bad.

 

Jupiter and Saturn were de-rotated from a 90sec video

 

The weird lines were all over the place. Any idea what causing it?

 

Transparency 2/5

Seeing 3/5

 

C9.25 EDGEHD

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Northfield, OH

May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse..

TS 130 APO

Skywatcher EQ6

Neximage 5 2x barlow

6389 frames in SharpCap

Stacked 2875 in Autostakkert

1.5 Drizzle

Post Astra Image PS cc.

Taken on April 8 2017 @ DSVA

The large prom that showed up to the North of my good friend AR2585 had given me a stimul to play with PST tuner to get more contrast of this feature. The resulting new settings killed the edge-on proms but had enchanced disk details, including prom of interest and "plages" in active regions (right), which were mostly unseen with previous setting (left).

 

North is up and to the left, West is right and up.

 

Acqusition time: 06.09.2016 04:45 and 08.09.2016 09:50 UT TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST

140 out of 800 frames were stacked in AS!2 were deconvolved in AstraImage 3 PRO (Cauchy 0,4-11) and processed ImageJ and PS.

It's a beautiful clear night in Austin, Texas, with a 2 day old waxing crescent Moon at 2018-10-11 01:00 UT. Questar 89 mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Crescent exposed 1/10 sec at ISO 400, earthshine exposed 10 sec at ISO 400.

Crescent best 8 of 81 images stacked in Autostakkert 3. Eathshine 15 images stacked in Lynkeos. Images deconvolved in Lynkeos, the composited, cropped, and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.

This was SOOOOOOO much work (and the result is a video less than a minute long!!!!!!).

 

I started imaging the Moon at 15:45 UT on 10th February, while it was still daylight. I shot videos of several regions of interest then went back out again once it had got darker. I then decided that I'd go out at regular intervals during the evening and do some repeat observations of the same regions. My final observations where at 22:30 UT, bringing my total number of repeat observations to five. I would have done more but I ran out of hard disc space on my laptop!

 

Equipment used was a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera, shot through a Celestron 3x Barlow. Each video was 2,000 frames, and depending on the quality graph, I stacked either the best 25% or the best 50% of the frames. Images were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom. I then went through the painfully laborious process of manually aligning the shots of each region using Photoshop CS2 so I could make a little animation.

 

This video shows the sunrise and evolution of the shadows on craters that were already illuminated over 6 hours 45 minutes.

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