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Thanks Brian & Bruce.

Luminance frames from 14th May 2020.



Struggling to get the RGB frames for this now, by the time it gets dark enough, Ursa Major is not in a good position. Maybe next year.

Dave

Your lunar image is actually pretty decent. If you download Autostakkert and use it to process your existing AVI file you will have the image you expect with the grid pattern removed. If you follow the steps in this document, there is some explanation of what is happening. I did this with a land bas...

Anton https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/gallery/m42-running-man-multi-exposure/ This was processed using sets of exposures of varying lengths - 120s, 60s, 30s 10s, 4s. I just loaded all the FITS frames as multi-session and Astro Pixel Processor dealt with it using default settings. Note ...

Joe

In order for anyone to have a chance at helping you, you need to post equipment (scope, camera, filters etc) & capture details including the capture settings file.

Dave;

Have a read of this by Gary Palmer: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/guide-cmos-camera-deep-sky-astrophotography/ In the Calibration Frames section Gary says: Use darks, flats and bias frames – despite there being some debate on whether the latter upsets the stacki...

Good detail in the crater floors. With a 3x Barlow your seeing must have been really good.

Dave

Carl An excellent video for anyone starting out with Live Stack showing how to produce a decent image using basic, inexpensive equipment. many forums these days tell people enquiring about VA / EAA so much information using so many high tech gizmos that it is crazy hard for them to figure out anythi...

Please post the camera settings file for the lunar capture, same method as above.

Dave

Steve

Cost is around £25 and should screw into the nosepiece of the camera (check with vendor).
https://www.365astronomy.com/365Astrono ... onomy.html

Dave