Moon – Triangle Montes Jura – Babbage - Herschel (Axel Kutter)

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Moon – Triangle Montes Jura – Babbage - Herschel

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Moon – Triangle Montes Jura – Babbage - Herschel

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

At the bottom right of the image, Cap Laplace forms the eastern end of the Montes Jura. On the far left at the terminator is the Babbage crater. Babbage is heavily eroded and is a tall boy at approximately 147 km. In the middle at the top of the image you can see the southern part of the heavily eroded crater Herschel (163 km). In between is the Mare Frigoris. By the way, the two craters in the middle at the bottom of the picture are Bianchini and Harpalus from right to left.

This image is also one of a series with 2,5xBarlow plus IR-Cut Moon & Skyglow filter this evening and the resulting focal length of 5080mm. The quality of the color raw footage almost killed me during processing until I got the idea to look at the individual RGB channels separately. Even if I know the theory or physics behind it, the result was very impressive. The red channel brought the best quality by far. Green was a little worse and blue was very bad. So I only used the red channel of 200 frames out of 5000 for this picture. With mediocre seeing and a frame rate of 66 fps, I worked with a gain of 256 (42%) and a shutter speed of 6.6 ms. This time I got the best results with AstraImage and the functions Multiscale Sharpen and Denoise. I did the final fine tuning with Lightroom.

As always, I'm also looking forward to harsh criticism and feedback.

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