#Random lunar cuz why not

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restive axle
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nice Ina

shadow bloom
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i love lunar images so much great work 🤩👌

strange delta
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make a mosaic at this level of quality

pine echo
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How do you take video on the moon/stack the pictures. Usually my stacks never look very good. I use autostakkert and sharpen using astrosurface.

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great job btw, that third picture is my favourite, the brownish one

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here let me show you what I mean

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It likely is but Its almost like my images lack contrast

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also the resolution on your images is insane

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I have a feeling like theres something I am doing thats not proper

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sometimes they turn out cool though

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I think it may be diffraction

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thats why I think I am doing something wrong

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I am using a 3xbarlow though

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I fairly certain my collimation is spot on.

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😦

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I just recently did an image of the moon in IR but it was poo as well. I deleted the pic because it frustrated me lmao

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Fair enough, I think I've started doing this with my planetary images. Makes a really nice clean background. I check if theres moons first though.

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what percentage do you stack usually for the moon?

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out how many in total? Like what percentage?

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True, one question I always think of but have yet to answer it is how I can determine what the seeing is out in the field. How can I say "oh yes, this is 3 FWHM" or whatever

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so how the stack looks without sharpening

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In that case, heres my IR moon I was talking about earlier, stacked at 5%

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I try to beat the seeing by doing a really small FOV but then I get these small images with no resolution. While your image has loads of resolution.

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FOV gets me a faster frame rate which should give me a better stack no?

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Okay, so its better to record the moon with my whole sensor at like 20 frames per second? and if not how do I determine what I should do. Lets say for example the seeing is okay, not excellent but its fine. What would you do?

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When I made that video of the moon, I recorded it at like 200fps for like 3 or 4 minutes I think

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I can take long videos of the moon because its features dont change very quickly.

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so thats the physical limit my telescope can resolve

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I totally understand now, IR is a longer wavelength so my mirror can only resolve it to a certain degree. Its the reason why radar dishes are 10 feet wide

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I forgot about that

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I thought shooting the moon in IR would be better though because IR is less suseptible to seeing

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however you spell the word lmao

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so it would work better if my mirror was larger. gotcha

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🙂

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Have you tried UV on the moon?

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you would get a better image no? or does the atmosphere block loads of it

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also do you use a mono camera to do this stuff or no?

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Thats probably another reason. I have to fight my camera and these softwares to debayer my images properly

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color camera gang

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yeah thats in the plans

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just costs money

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why not the ASI cameras?

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okay, I use an ASI AIR so thats sort of tricky. I want to use my laptop for planetary again but its a pain in the ass

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I am aware of the issue. It only records in AVI and recording in SER is better

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the convience though

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irresistible

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Fair enough. Why wouldn't I use the ASI AIR then for planetary?

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I thought that was the only reason

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I process using my desktop, I collect the data on a USB and bring it inside.

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my laptop is POOO

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but it works good enough to get the data. I used to use it in the past.