A few Images from the 17th June

[PembrokeSteve]

Hi,

I tried out my Atik 0.5 Focal Reducer on my Vixen VC200L, the other night which I bought ages ago, but have never used, until now.
I got the reducer to enable me to have a go at some lucky DSO imaging with my ZWO ASI178MC.  Anyway I went and tested it out on the Moon.  I was very impressed by the extremely sharp images of the Moon on my laptop screen and thought "hey, my images are going to be amazing".  However, after running my images through Autostakkert and seeing the result, I was disappointed.  My images taken at 3096 x 2080 Resolution looked O.K,  but the sampling?  on my 1920 x 1200 Resolution images just did not look right.  Anyway I re-processed the 1920 X 1200 Res images using Autostakkert Drizzle mode, and perhaps now they are not too bad? 
Don't think I will use the 0.5 Reducer again on the Moon.

1st Image:   Mosaic comprising of 5 3096 x 2080 Resolution images, stitched together with Affinity Photo Panorama.
2nd, 3rd and 4th Images:   Images taken at 1920 x 1200 Resolution, and then processed using Autostakkert Drizzle mode. Processed in Affinity Photo.
 

Regards, 

Steve

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by PembrokeSteve

[neil phillips]

Next time try without the reducer. The moon is not well placed at the moment. So not easy full stop. But the blocky appearance at full size is highly likely the reducer causing undersampling . Still they dont look that bad. Something to build on. Good tight focus from what i can tell

Edited June 23, 2021 by neil phillips

[PembrokeSteve]

Thanks for the advice Neil,

Cheers,

Steve

[morimarty]

They are a cracking set of luna images Steve. The top image in particular looks exceptional.