Contains:  Solar system body or event
Waxing Moon, Mark Tweedie

Waxing Moon

Waxing Moon, Mark Tweedie

Waxing Moon

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Description

The waxing moon, photographed on a night with thin, high clouds. I'm slightly surprised how good the definition was in somewhat hazy sky conditions. 500 frames taken in SER format.

Happy to get Autostakkert 64-bit version running under Wine (using PlayOnLinux on Debian).

AutoStakkert settings
Image stabilization: Surface/Improved tracking/Expand
Quality Estimator: Laplace A/Local
Reference Frame: Auto size
Stack Options: 25% frames/Sharpened/Blend RAW for 75%
Advanced Settings: Resample 2.0X
Alignment Points: 169

Finished with tweaks in PixInsight using Multiscale Linear Transform, TGVDenoise and Curves Transformation.

Rather than curse the moon for its negative effect on deep sky imaging, I've resolved to start photographing it instead!

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