The Moon - Captured with RASA 8" and QHY5III715C (David Huff)

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The Moon - Captured with RASA 8" and QHY5III715C

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The Moon - Captured with RASA 8" and QHY5III715C

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

The weather has not been great lately and then when it's not rainy, there smoke from forest fires. Now the moon is out so no DSO imaging. But there a fix for this! Image the moon! I captured the full moon using my RASA 8" telescope and the QHY5III715C camera. Yes I know part of it is cut off because the FOV was just a little bit too small but the details I captured are amazing! I captured 1032 frames at 40 millisecond each! I only used SharpCap to capture, then PixInsight to align via the FFT Registration script then a Image Integration of all frames using generalized extreme studentized deviate for pixel rejection. Then I flipped (RASA thing) then color corrected, deconvolution, a little bit of unsharp mask, HDRMultiscaleTransform, used a range mask to get rid of some over exposed, over saturated areas, the finally a nice generalized hyperbolic stretch to increase saturation and bring out detail. Maybe I will image the moon again but next time with the QHY183C :-)

Clear Skies!
Dave

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