Moon 61%(-) - Moon with a view, fine-tuning the lunar flow (Wouter Cazaux)

Moon 61%(-) - Moon with a view, fine-tuning the lunar flow

20220222 - Moon 61%(-) - Moon with a view, fine-tuning the lunar flow

What’s in the picture(s)
The Moon at 61%(-) on Feb 23th, 07:08 cet

What was the experience
20220222 Palindroom day, the day that we suddenly had clear skies, after months of clouds. The scopes were set, capturing DSO’s during the night, with the moon only lighting up the sky in the later part of the night.

By dawn’s early night, the moon was still shining in the blue morning sky. I pointed both scopes and captured some data. Practicing the lunar capturing, continuing the learning curve on ‘planetary’ processing.

This first image was done with the TS94, with the L-Pro filter still in the drawer from the night. A quick single video capture and processing. Improved on the exposure and gain settings for the capture, and fine-tuned the learning on the planetary stacking and wavelets processing.

A decent image, but I realise that the scope/camera is too small to go any sharper than this. Zooming in the pixelation becomes visible in the small detail. But … Rupes Recta and Copernicus Crater are nicely visible

I’m happy 😎 … It’s becoming ‘standard practice’ to capture the moon

How it was done
Scope: TS94 APO (FL 414mm)
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: ASI2600MC Pro
Filter: L-Pro
Photons: 20220223 07:08 0.4ms Gain 350 RAW8 158s 1019 frames 20% stacked
Processing: AutoStakkert, Registax, PixInsight (Mac)

What have I learned from this
Although the lunar processing is becoming standard practice now, I’ve come to understand the limits of this particular scope/camera combination for lunar image resolution (the 2600 is not really a planetary camera). Good enough for overall shots, but not enough to asses the lunar landing spots 😎

Clear Skies everybody! 🤩✨🔭

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