Processing the moon!

[Adaaam75]

Hi guys,
So on Tuesday night I spent the evening imaging the moon with my Celestron 9.25 SCT and DSLR as shown below and am happy with the images I collated (I only took images as I did intend to take capture video but I got carried away and time was getting on).

I have approx 350 jpeg (and the equivalent in raw) images and have used the Microsoft image composite editor to stitch the frames together without editing them first etc but I wonder if I'm going the images an injustice?

I'm not ready to pay for editing software as I know there is a lot of very good free downloads out there and I'm asking for recommendations. Should I be processing the frames before/after stitching and what software would you recommend? Please offer any advice you have.

I will post the resulting image once I'm happy with the outcome 😁

Thanks in advance!

 

[MarkAR]

Gimp is one of the better post processing tools.

[Adaaam75]

38 minutes ago, MarkAR said:

Gimp is one of the better post processing tools.

Downloading! Thanks Mark