Purbach Cross & S/E Limb

[JB80]

Thought I would have another go at some Lunar over the last couple of days and it has been hit and miss but last night I managed to catch the Lunar X between the clouds. In the end the clouds won out so I didn't get as much time as I would of liked.

I'm finding Lunar to be very temperamental, some nights it just doesn't pull off. I guess there is something to take from that which applies to Solar too.

Anyhoo, I took these with the 150PL and ZWOasi120mm.

[Luke]

They've come out well, Jarrod. What kind of sharpening did you use, may I ask?

Ages since I did some higher res lunar but my way some nights there's little point using the 8 inch SCT over my 120mm frac. I think skies our way just aren't that steady, on hols one day the solar seeing was soooo steady, grass everywhere instead of rooftops. Though one day it was pants too.

[JB80]

Cheers Luke!

I was surprised considering the conditions and the previous nights failure. Like you say the bigger aperture is a lot less forgiving under rough skies.

For sharpening I just use Smart Sharpen to taste and then apply a small touch of noise reduction. That's about it aside from contrast et al.

I'm running one through AI3.0 now to see what that comes out with.