The 10 Days old Moon in August (astropical)

The 10 Days old Moon in August

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

A small company my good friends were running in Tokyo went bankrupt because of an unreliable investor. This is the sad result of their hard pioneering work and I was shamefully lucky to get one of their office PCs for free, a Thinkpad E590 coring an i5. Although my own Fujitsu laptop sports an i7, the Thinkpad's USB-3 port processes and saves my ASI camera's images to HDD much faster without buffering at constantly fast fps, feeling like a new imaging era with fairer chances to outrun clouds. Stacking in AS!3 takes longer with the Thinkpad, but good data is more important.

In spite of high air humidity the atmosphere was quiet enough to risk imaging with a 3x barlow.

The original (final) image taken without barlow, FL=750mm, 1ms, gain 100, 6x mosaic.

All images are stacks of 400 out of 4000, raw8 color frames, pre-sharpened (20%) and 1.5x drizzled in AS!3, further processed in Photoshop CS2.

B

Description: West of Copernicus, 2x barlow, FL=1500mm, 5ms, gain 150.

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C

Description: Mare Nubium (new name of my observatory), 2x barlow, FL=1500mm, 5ms, gain 150.

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D

Description: Sinus Iridium, 3x barlow, FL=2250mm, 13ms, gain 150.

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E

Description: Mare Nubium, 3x barlow, FL=1500mm, 9ms, gain 150.

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F

Description: Apennines and crater Archimedes, 3x barlow, FL=2250mm, 9ms, gain 130.

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G

Description: West of Copernicus, 3x barlow, FL=2250mm, 11ms, gain 130.

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H

Description: The rugged south west, south is left, 3x barlow, FL=2250mm, 6ms, gain 150, 2x mosaic.

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I

Description: The blossom of a red or white dragon fruit usually blooms around full moon for merely a few hours at night. This one bloomed on a night of an 68% illuminated moon. Reason being, a typhoon will arrive in two days. The cactus plant knew it and adjusted its biology to avoid being destroyed by salty wind and rain before it blooms. You may be aware of a similarly looking cactus named "Queen of the Night" which also typically blooms on a night when the moon is full.

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J

Description: These blossoms herald a typhoon. I do not know the proper name of this flower (rain lily?), but local people call it "taifubana", the "typhoon flower". It also blooms without a storm coming about but the blossoms are most prominent and intensive in color days before a typhoon.

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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
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Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

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Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
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