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Waxing Moon Captured in Daylight, Steve Lantz

Waxing Moon Captured in Daylight

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Waxing Moon Captured in Daylight, Steve Lantz

Waxing Moon Captured in Daylight

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I finally got clear skies, but had a commitment coming up in the evening, which meant no imaging. Undeterred, I elected to image the moon about two hours before sunset. Scattered skylight and typically poor daytime seeing posed a big challenge, but I used a luminance filter to weed out any stray IR and reduced the blue channel a bit in the OSC image to compensate for extra blue from the sky. I used my 10" Newtonian for the first time on the moon. I wanted to use a 2x Barlow but found that getting a daytime lunar image focused was just about impossible at higher magnifications. So I took images a prime focus. Relevant data:

-images acquired on 2/21/2021 at 4:00 p.m. MST

--five 15s videos with 996 frames each for a total of 4,980 sub frames

--the best 90 frames were stacked for the final image

--I rendered the image in grey scale after balancing the RGB channels as well as I could.

Mare Nubium is the lava plain in the upper center of the image; below Mare Nubium is very old, heavily cratered crust that is part of the lunar southern highlands. The three large craters in the upper right corner are, from top to bottom, Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel.

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