2-tile mosaic, Mare Serenitatis + Rima Hyginus & Rima Ariadaeus

[turfpit]

Captured 24 February 2026. 52% waxing moon near the meridian at 56° elevation. 2 tiles captured, each of 90s duration.
Equipment: Celestron C8, Celestron AVX mount, Baader 610nm red pass filter, Skyris 236M camera, JMI MotoFocuser.
Software: SharpCap, BiggSky.
Capture: each tile was 5000 frames at 54fps.
Processing: BiggSky - auto stack (42% & 29%) with SuperRes 1.5, blind deconvolution PSF from ROI, mosaic stitching, Gamma 1.5, Render CLAHE (Uniform), UnSharp Mask amount 0.1 with 2 iterations.

For BiggSky mosaic information see https://biggsky.com/mosaic.html

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Mosaic layout in BiggSky.

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Dave

[timh]

Very nice Dave. I tried the unsharp mask and thought that it oversharpened (my particular dataset) and I see that you have used it but in a subtle way at only 0.1. The Biggsky mosaic tool looks to have a number of advantages and I will try using that rather than the Microsoft app as I have been -- and the derotation tools for Saturn --once the skies provide another opportunity.