Crescent Moon, 15 January 2024 - 8 panel mosaic

[jonathancd]

Managed to get out this evening for a relatively rare bit of lunar imaging.  This was taken using a TEC140, with 2.5x barlow and Altair 174M camera.  It is a composite of 8 panels each of which are are the best 15% of 1000 frames stacked in Autostakkert 3 and the mosaic put together with Microsoft ICE.  Thanks for looking.

[Mandy D]

That is nice. I got out this afternoon and early evening with a x2 focal extender on a 200P, imagaing with a Nikon D800. I was happy with what I got, but nothing like as good as that, but I was onbly processing a single frame. I'm struggling to get my greys and contrast as good as yours.

[jonathancd]

Thanks, it is easier with a mono video camera to get good resolution and contrast.  You can get some good images with a DSLR though, take a few images and pick the sharpest ones out to sharpen.

[Planetary Observer]

Very nice