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The Moon the Easy Way and the Hard Way, Kelly Wood

The Moon the Easy Way and the Hard Way

The Moon the Easy Way and the Hard Way, Kelly Wood

The Moon the Easy Way and the Hard Way

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Have been experimenting with the ZWO ASI224MC and decided to try a bit of a fidelity comparison. Image on the left is a composite of 4 separate images obtained by gathering 4 separate sets of 3000 frames at 10 ms in Firecapture and with the ZWO. I then processed in Autostakkert! (running in Wine on OS X... which runs 64 bit Windows apps astonishingly well) and culled down to the top 5% of frames. Stitched together by hand in Gimp.

The "easy way" on the right is a single shot on my Nikon D7100. No processing other than a bump up in brightness in Gimp because I went with a super fast shutter speed in hopes of minimizing the atmospheric churn. Hoping to get a full composite when the moon is full in a few days.

ZWO wins.

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The Moon the Easy Way and the Hard Way, Kelly Wood

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