Proper first light ASI120-MM (klaussius)

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Proper first light ASI120-MM

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Proper first light ASI120-MM

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

After imaging Eta Carinae, the moon was high in the sky, begging to be imaged.

I had a proper planetary camera acting as guide cam... so I switched quickly, and started imaging.

I haven't yet coded the lucky imaging algorithms, so I did a quick selection of the best frame and this is it. I'll do a proper integration with drizzle and upload as a version B when I'm done coding ;-)

I know, it's overexposed. I had my exposure time and gain almost at the minimum... the moon was bright as hell, and the camera sensitive like a feather... difficult combination to tame. Lots to learn about planetary yet.

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B

Description: Integration of 41 best frames out of ~1150 using 2x drizzle. I had to crop it a bit due to artifacts at the edges (the video was drifting considerably), but overall it came out pretty well.

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Description: Less cropping thanks to more careful edge processing

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Description: Drizzle 3x + richardson-lucy deconvolution

This reaches the diffraction limit on my scope IIUC.

Will post a gif comparison, it's really cool.

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E

Description: Animation comparing a single frame crop vs the same crop from the drizzle 3x integration. The resolution improvement is quite dramatic.

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