Astrophysical Graffiti

That's a great image.

A well lit view of the pass from Imbrium to Serenitatis.

It appears you've posted the same image 3 times?

This and the other image I commented on have the makings of good images. I do see a couple of things I would personally do differently. First, your image would be helped tremendously by raising the black point until the blacks were actually black or very nearly so. Second, you have gone pretty heavy on the noise reduction, given the flat regions a kind of plastic look. A little pixel level grain in a lunar image never hurt anybody and gives the image a more realistic feeling, as it provides a natural sort of dithering beyond the 8 bits that most of our displays are capable of showing. If the noise bothers you when you pixel peep, then reduce it sparingly, or if possible, just don't pixel peep. :O)

Great image from the 200p. I also have one, although I have retired it from imaging, excepting only special occasions, namely earthshine when I don't want to haul my CGEM out to the dark site with the clear views of the horizon.

More great images, Lukasz.

2 hours ago, TheThing said:

Mighty fine!

Thank you. Glad somebody took a look. :O)

I am glad that 183 is working out for you, Lukasz. I do love mine for the Moon, even with its quirks and difficulties.

These are wonderful images.

Greetings. This is my first post here. By way of introduction I thought I'd share my recently reprocessed image of the waxing quarter Moon, imaged with my 1100 EdgeHD + ASI183MC. The image is a mosaic of 6 panels, each 50% of 2000 frames. Here's a thumbnail:

You can find a 50% version, which I think I prefer for the sharpness, here: https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/93441/2022/8d78bf96-778b-436f-8d75-49b6a1d38839.png

And the 100%, 78 megapixel capture resolution version can be seen here: https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/93441/2022/cf635a41-c122-437e-86c2-36691c902336.jpg

Thanks for taking a look.