Lunar eclipse - almost maximum eclipse

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Got lucky with the clouds.
I still have a lot to learn about lunar photography.


Taken with a QHY163C on Celestron C9.25 with the celestron .63 reducer
100 shots stacked at 50%

Shots taken at gain 200, 1 Sec exposure
Stacked in AutoStakkert, played around with wavelets in Registax (which I think I overdid)

Edited just a little in Gimp



Criticism welcome


Cheers
Ahmed

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Here's another stack, this one at gain 350 and 200 shots stacked.
Same process as before, stacked in Auto stakkert, wavelets in Registax. But no editing in Gimp this time.

[oska (John)]

Very nice.

[Dave882 (David)]

Great shot!

[alpal]

Originally Posted by ahmed_haider

Stacked in AutoStakkert, played around with wavelets in Registax (which I think I overdid)

Cheers
Ahmed

Nice work Ahmed,
I tried stacking 4 frames of the Moon this morning without success.
The Moon had moved a little between frames.

I tried:
Photoshop CS5.1,
Deep Sky Stacker &
Registax.

None of them would align the images.
Would AutoStakkert do a better job?


cheers
Allan

[Dennis]

Nothing to critique here, lovely work, well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Originally Posted by oska

Very nice.

Thank you John!

Originally Posted by Dave882

Great shot!

Thanks David!

Originally Posted by alpal

Nice work Ahmed,
I tried stacking 4 frames of the Moon this morning without success.
The Moon had moved a little between frames.

I tried:
Photoshop CS5.1,
Deep Sky Stacker &
Registax.

None of them would align the images.
Would AutoStakkert do a better job?


cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan.

For aligning the frames you need something like PIPP
https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/downloads
This will align your frames better than AutoStakkert.
After aligning with PIPP you can then stack in AutoStakkert (or whichever stacking software you use) then play around with Photoshop etc.

Hope that helps

Originally Posted by Dennis

Nothing to critique here, lovely work, well done.

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis!

[Averton (P and C)]

Nice work Ahmed!

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Originally Posted by Averton

Nice work Ahmed!

Thanks mate!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Nice Bold image there Ahmed

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Originally Posted by astronobob

Nice Bold image there Ahmed

Thanks. I felt like I had to go bold with the small size image. I used the same image on social media because it looks good on the phone
Better quality image on astrobin here:
https://astrob.in/sq7zyq/0/

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Impressive in every way...
Well done.