Some Lunar Images - 21 September

[PembrokeSteve]

Hi,

After an evening's session imaging Jupiter on 21st September, I could'nt resist turning my scope onto the moon and taking a few images. 
I concentrated on the moon's edges and stayed with my favourite ROI (camera capture area) for lunar of 1920 x 1200.  Quite pleased with
the results, considering the moon was still low in the sky with a slight breeze kicking in and making the seeing unsteady.

Equipment:  Intes MK67 Maksutov on NEQ6 mount.  ZWO ASi 178MC camera.

Processing:  Avi's ran through Autostakkert 3. Wavelets tweaked in Registax. Final adjustments done in Affinity Photo.

Regards,

Steve

 

 

[WestCoastCannuck]

Low in the sky is challenging for sure!  Good details and nice views!   Some noise.  Might want to try a little NR?   How many images stacked?

 

Mike

[PembrokeSteve]

23 hours ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

Low in the sky is challenging for sure!  Good details and nice views!   Some noise.  Might want to try a little NR?   How many images stacked?

 

Mike

Hi Mike,

I always have great difficulty with noise reduction.  (ie) applying it to good effect, without losing the sharpness.
So a lot of the time unless the seeing was really good , I end up with grainy images,  much like what 400 ASA 35mm film would give you.
On my lunar, like the images a have posted here,  I typically shoot about 1,350 frames and stack 20% of them in AS3. 

I only have the Freeware Neat Image, which does not always give a good results and only in the JPEG format.
I also have Affinity Photo Noise Reduction and of course I regularly use  Gaussian Blur,  but again, I hate the way "de-noising"  robs my images of sharpness.
I suppose I will have to spend some money and invest in something effective like Topaz De-Noise. 
Would you suggest I shoot more frames?

Regards,

Steve

[WestCoastCannuck]

3 hours ago, PembrokeSteve said:

Hi Mike,

I always have great difficulty with noise reduction.  (ie) applying it to good effect, without losing the sharpness.
So a lot of the time unless the seeing was really good , I end up with grainy images,  much like what 400 ASA 35mm film would give you.
On my lunar, like the images a have posted here,  I typically shoot about 1,350 frames and stack 20% of them in AS3. 

I only have the Freeware Neat Image, which does not always give a good results and only in the JPEG format.
I also have Affinity Photo Noise Reduction and of course I regularly use  Gaussian Blur,  but again, I hate the way "de-noising"  robs my images of sharpness.
I suppose I will have to spend some money and invest in something effective like Topaz De-Noise. 
Would you suggest I shoot more frames?

Regards,

Steve

Hi Steve.  I think you are stacking enough...  though personally I usually stack about 300-400 of 3000 frames from my 183mm which has the same pixel size as the 178 .  At f12 you are a bit  oversampled and perhaps pushing the files a bit hard with gain and sharpening.   You could try a reducer....  or perhaps a softer processing and reduce the pic size a bit...  say 80% original.   This all if you don't find NR working for you.  Or leave as is to show max detail.   It's all fun messing with different ways of doing things.  😀

[DMH]

I'm loving how close these are, very awesome. Thanks for sharing