A Celestron 8" SCT was fitted with an f/6.3 focal reducer/field flattener and mounted on a Celestron AVX mount. A ZWO ASI178MC camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus and 1500 frame SER files were captured with AstroDMx Capture for Windows of 6 overlapping panes of the 91.4% waning Moon.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing data on one of the panes.
The best 70% of frames in each SER file i.e. 1050 frames in each SER file, were stacked in Autostakkert! The resulting image for each pane was wavelet processed in Registax 6, and all of the 6 pane images were stitched into a mosaic in Microsoft Image Composite Editor. The final image was post processed in the Gimp 2.10 and Affinity Photo.
A single pane of the final mosaic
Another pane of the final mosaic
Mosaic of the 6 panes
The saturation was enhanced to reveal differences in the mineralogy of the lunar surface
Animation of the saturated and unsaturated images
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The Windows version of AstroDMx Capture is close to completion and this is hopefully one of the final tests to be done pre-release.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS or Linux (Including Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded freely here:
