Colour moon

[Andrew*]

Okay, this is stacked in Deep Sky Stacker of all things. I think I could have got a better result using registax but it didn't want to do it

32 frames, and saturated in photoshop. I don't know why the bottom half went so overly PINK, and I couldn't seem to correct it. But I tried again from scratch and this time the same part went all blue.

So I'll just post both. Take your pick, and if you like neither, please - have a play!

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Sony A-300 at prime focus, using Skywatcher 8" newtonian.

Andrew

[Andrew*]

Okay, tried one last time. Registax was kind of okay with just 16 frames, although didn't feel like making a perfect alignment of them :?

But the colour worked out

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Andrew

[blinky]

Nice colour, especially int he registax version, shame it could not perfectly align them

[gary1968]

If registax is strugling Andrew it might be down to not enough RAM. My pooter used to struggle with big AVI's and it was only after fitting more RAM that it got better. I know you were not using avi but it still might be a memory problem.

Nice pics BTW, I like the reprocessed version it is pretty amazing looking with the colurs.

Gary

[Andrew*]

Thanks guys. Yeah, more RAM is on the books. My PC is pretty good spec except the RAM and memory card, so for processing both of htose could do with an upgrade.

Okay, final reprocess now - really! I took the well saturated, but badly stacked image that came out of registax, and overlaid the colour onto the badly saturated, but well stacked image that came out of DSS. Best of both worlds

Now I'm finally pleased with the result!

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Andrew

[tooth_dr]

Hi Andrew

The last one is definitely the best, nice colour and better alignment. The 8" scope is just about perfect for prime focus DLSR imaging of the Moon.

Adam