23% Waxing Crescent [OC]

lefty7283@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.world – 64 points –
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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