The first observing session of the year, the first full moon of the year, the first coloured moon pic of the year:
Wolf Moon (17/01/2022)
Posts tagged 'Coloured Moon'
Observing Report 19th-20th September 2019 (Moon RC+ASI174MC – Take #2)
Well, there's little point in having a colour camera but posting lowly b&w pics. Same data as before, but a different processing method.
Again, feel free to click it to go large.
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, satsx6 in vdub, K3x1, Reg5, PS merge RGB and L.
Observing Report 24th August 2019 (Backstop)
Seeing was bad, not much chance of imaging galaxies or nebulae, so I went for the Moon instead:
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB in FCdeb, K3x2, Reg5, PS.
Observing Report 20th-21st July 2019 (Fifty years on)
At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.
It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019.
It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a recently-acquired second-hand camera with a recently-acquired second-hand PC and a recently-acquired new SSD. Being able to record full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi files at 160 FPS with no skipped frames and no write-lag is a real improvement which should be useful for capturing ISS Transits:
Observing Report 16th-17th October 2016 (coloured Moon mosaic)
Moon-gazing again last Sunday... playing around with a colour video camera on the 6" R-C... 17 clips each of 250 frames, stacked with AutoStakkert!2, coaxed into one mosaic using iMerge (see previous post), tarted up with Photoshop CS3.
The result is better than expected.
Feel free to click on it to see the full version, but be aware that it might take a while to load - it's about 12Mb:
If that's not enough, there's a ~40Mb .bmp version here.
One edge done
We've now got all of the bits, they're fitting together nicely:
Should be finished soon.
