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23% Waxing Crescent [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can't wait to see it when the waxing is 100% complete. Make it shine!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks to my north facing balcony, I can only photograph the moon when it's at high declinations. Fortunately it was at +27 dec the other day, and it was early enough for me to be awake to shoot it! Captured at 10pm on April 12th, 2024.

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Instagram

Equipment:

  • TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

  • Orion Sirius EQ-G

  • ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

  • Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

  • ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

  • Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

  • Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

  • Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

  • ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

  • Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition: (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)

  • R - 20000 x 5.4ms

  • G - 2000 x 4.3ms

  • B - 2000 x 6.0ms

Capture Software:

  • Captured using Sharpcap and N.I.N.A. for mount/filterwheel control

Stacking:

  • Stacked the best 25% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)

PixInsight Processing:

  • DynamicCrop

  • ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image

  • ChannelMatch to align G and B color channels to red

  • ColorCalibration

  • HistogramTransformation (slight stretch)

  • SCNR > invert > SCNR to remove green and magenta color fringing

  • CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.

  • LocalHistogramTransformation

  • dynamic crop

  • Annotation