Moon

“Moon”

• IR-RGB 7000mm

In the night of 23.10.2023 it was clear, with rather average good seeing – vl 6 of 10. Still testing the new equipment, I aimed after Saturn and Jupiter also the moon. With 7000mm focal length (Barlow Telvue Powermate 2.5x) I could collect some images before the moon sank below 35° at the horizon. Here I show a mosaic, and crops from it (a crop corresponds to about 2 sensor diagonals or mosaics from 2 fields of the QHY678 with the said Barlow lens). I took color images with the QHY678C and luminance images in the IR642 filter with the QHY678M. Both images were put together in PTGUI and faintly color enhanced in Photoshop.
I finally want great seeing for sharp images 🙂

| Object : Moon & Crops (detail)
| Stack LUM: 1 Sequ. a’60s each 2560 Frames thereof Top 15%
| Stack RGB: 1 Sequ. a’60s each 1300 Frames thereof Top 40%
| EBV : Autostakkert3/AstraImage/WaveSharp/AdobePS/WinJupos/SharpCap
| Gear : AZ-EQ6 GT Pro / SC 11 EHD
| Filters : Astronomik UV/IR Cut L1, Astronomik IRPASS642
| Stuff : Telvue Barlow 2,5x / ADC Pierro Astro MK III / Lacerta MFOK
| Camera : QHY678M / BW: 7000mm
| Exif LUM : BLZ 2,5ms per frame / Gain:60 / Gamma:0 / 8bit
| Exif RGB : BLZ 2,3ms per frame / Gain:40 / Gamma:0 / 8bit