The key to planetary & lunar imaging is video, video, video... since you already have a planetary camera, make sure you use SER format... don't use mp4, it's way too compressed...
Then use autostakkert (assuming you are on windows) to select & stack the individual frames (you just load the video & select the percentage to stack based on a quality analysis done by autostakkert) & then use registax wavelets module to sharpen the stacked output... these two programs are free...
Both those images were shot with about 30secs to a minute of video which will give you thousands of frames... I think I stacked about 50%, maybe less using autostakkert... wavelets in registax takes a bit of getting used to, it's easy to overdo it but, the beauty of digital is that if you save each iteration, you can always go back to the start & do it again...
I then give it a tweak in affinity photo (equivalent of photoshop) but, if you want another free imaging program give Gimp a go...
If you try & take individual images, you will be disappointed...
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