An Affinity with the Moon
Attached to this post is an image of the almost-full moon taken on 12/05/25 from Bathurst in NSW during about a three minute break in what has seemed like endless cloud cover of late.
Nothing unusual about it...except that I processed it solely with Affinity Photo 2.6.2. The newer version of Affinity has a Stacking feature and I was curious to see what it could do.
I mounted a Canon r6 to my iOptron CEM26 (unguided) and fired off 40 images. I used a 100-400mm lens at full (which meant f8) @200 ISO and 1/320 shutter speed. No darks or flats. Converted from .cr3 to .tif for processing. The image has been tweaked for contrast but otherwise is pretty much as it came out of the camera.
It's not as versatile as AutoStakkert or AstroSurface - the whole process is automatic - but I've had worse results over the years.
Thoughts?
Last edited by Crater101; 14-05-2025 at 07:45 AM.
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