Mineral Moon, 2-panel mosaic, 92% waxing

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Mineral Moon, 2-panel mosaic, 92% waxing

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Captured 9th May 2025, 2 panels. Higher resolution image here https://www.astrobin.com/p97kbk/0/

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Hardware: Celestron AVX mount, Celestron C8, Celestron 0.63x reducer, Altair 183C camera
Software: Sharpcap v4.1, BiggSky, Image Composite Editor, GIMP
Capture: each panel - SER, RAW8, 5440x3648, exposure=6ms, gain=150, black level=0, 500 frames in 110s @ 5fps

Processing: BiggSky (stacking and blind deconvolution), Image Composite Editor (ICE) stitch 2 panels, GIMP Denoise, UnSharpMask, contrast, curves (all minimal values), Hue-Saturation 40% applied several times.

With BiggSky, stack best 85% of 500 frames, blind deconvolution was carried out using tiles size=1000 & overlap=200 plus denoise=0% before and 1% after. PSF values were calculated from the Luminance layer only.

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Re: Mineral Moon, 2-panel mosaic, 92% waxing

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Excellent job as always
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Thanks Leandro.

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