Big moon / Small scope 19/05/21

[Yawning Angel]

As an experiment I tried a 2.5x barlow with my 80ED to see if it could get useful data with my asi178mm. 23 panels taken around 21:00 hrs in the fading light. 

• 23 x 500 frames, captured in SharpCap 4 beta. asi178mm / green filter / Celestron Luminos 2.5x barlow
• Batch processed in PixInsight, restoration filter
• Mosaic compiled by Microsoft ICE
• Processed in Photoshop, including 'Content aware fill' to fix the background sky areas not covered by the mosaic
• Reduced by 50% to stop it being unreasonably large. (It's still well worth clicking through to the full image)

I keep thinking about replacing the 80ED, but it keeps delivering

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Yawning Angel

[blameTECHIE]

I'd completely forgotten about Microsoft ICE, thank goodness for archive sites as it's no longer available from MS

Nice image, I was fitting a focus motor to my 80ED last night and took a few moments of visual on the moon before the clouds rolled in - they really are a good quick 'throw it on and have a look' scope

[Yawning Angel]

Thank you! Microsoft ICE is a fantastic tool - I have it backup up myself, just to be safe, as I'm sure what could do the job otherwise

[Trevor N]

Very good image

[WestCoastCannuck]

Excellent results for such oversampling!  Indeed the 80Ed is a good one...  lots of details here.