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Title: "Moon Panorama and development chronology" - IR- SW 2250mm Mosaic Panorama 60 Panels

Description: "Moon Panorama and development chronology"
- IR-RGB & SW 2250mm Mosaic Panorama 60 Panels

At the end of my moon series, I'll show you the whole panorama today, from which I merge the 4 crops of the series that I posted in the past :-)
The moon was waxing, the right side is still in shadow, taken on May 10, 2022, with good seeing.

About the recordings:
I started at around 8:00 p.m. with focusing and setting the exposure times, gain and gamma for RGB and IRPass in FireCapture. I chose 1 second with Gain 415 (possibly a bit too high) and Gamma 36, ​​in 8bit for the IRPass recordings and 1 second with Gain 280 and Gamma 36, ​​also in 8bit for the RGB recordings. I started with RGB, only about 1000 frames per panel, after a good 60 minutes I had the moon in the box as RGB, each with 3x Barlow with a total focal length of 2250mm. You don't need more if you also do IRPASS. For the IR shots, I then spent much more time, until the morning hours. Each panel with about 8000 frames, of which the best 20% are used for the stack.
I used to do the RGB recordings without Barlow but with 3x Drizzle with 6 panels and mixed them in, but the colors become much more subtle if I also record the RGB recordings with the 3x Barlow as with IRPass, I found. Sometimes saving time just doesn't make sense ^^
Stacked with Autostakkert, moderately sharpened in Astraimage with Deconvolution, Wavelet Sharpen and Unsharp Mask, thanks to the sufficient quality frames available. Combining the individual panels into panoramas in PTGUI was child's play without much effort thanks to the good quality.

In Photoshop IRPass and RGB panoramas aligned and tonal adjusted, background tweaked and cropped. further denoised in Pixinsight, gently applied HDR and added contrast, slightly stretched. Back in Photoshop IRPASS superimposed as luminance over the RGB. The RGB data was color-enhanced in 4 passes with color noise, the colors were adjusted using ACR, exposure was readjusted and softened with a factor of 100 per Gauss.
Finally, a selective color correction was set and the colors were finely adjusted. Brushed in some Doge & Burn for various corrections, and finally sharpened with the APF-R sharpness plugin.
Adjusted the contrast again and scaled for Astrobin and Facebook. Posted and texted, leaned back proud and happy with it.

Attached are the 4 individual excerpts from the past few days as a black and white version.

If you want to view the recordings without Facebook compression in full resolution for zooming in, you can do so on Astrobin - here you will find both the color-enhanced elaboration and the black and white version.
Link to Astrobin:

| Object: Moon Mosaic Panorama 60 Panels
| Stack : Top 20% of 8000 frames/panel - LuckyImaging
| EBV : Autostakkert3/AstraImage/Pixinsight/Adobe LR&PS
| Gear : AZ-EQ6GT Pro / Skywatcher 150/750PDS
| Stuff : IR Cut & IRPASS 642nm Filter - Astronomy
| Camera: ZWO ASI462MC / BW: 2250mm // Barlow 3x Televie
| Exif : BLZ 1ms per frame / Gain 415 / Gamma 36 / 8bit

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