Moon - My little IRGB Experiment with Tycho and Cassini's White Cloud (Axel Kutter)

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Moon - My little IRGB Experiment with Tycho and Cassini's White Cloud

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Moon - My little IRGB Experiment with Tycho and Cassini's White Cloud

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

After about one year without any sky contact I picked the footage of my last moon landing in February 2021 so to say as a little warm-up.

It has been my little just-for-fun experiment to get an impression of the imaging performance of each of my RGB-filters in comparison. And by the way, trying to create an RGB color version of a moon close-up was appealing to me, too.

What you see is Tycho, the dark and deep one in the lower third to the left.
Another very prominent feature is Cassini's "white cloud" which is being located on the eastern floor of Deslandres. The name derives from reports of a transient "white cloud" by the 17th century astronomer G. D. Cassini.

Additional image and processing data: 100 frames out of 30000 each. Sharpening with Topaz Sharpen AI.

My little personal conclusion from this gimmick:
The Baader R610 filter remains my darling and the resulting color image disappoints me. May be, there are too many of these fascinating mineral moon wide field images in my mind.

My next important astro activity is already planned: I will clear my telescope of dust.

As always, I'm looking forward to your feedback and your recommendations on what I could have done better.

Moon - Lunar closeup

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