New to Me Stacking Method

[OhNo]

Below is what I got when I tried a technique that is new to me. To date I've been a bit frustrated trying to stack images of the Sun, Moon and Planets. I haven't had much luck using photoshop, and not joy trying to use DSS.

In this image I used Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor). I took 12 images with a different exposure setting from 1/40 to 1/500 seconds and run them through ICE. The image has had no post processing what so ever. While this might be a bit of a unorthodox way to do it the result is way better than I got with PhotoShop (CS2).

102019 luna__MG_0652_Single__stitch.jpg

[bladekeeper]

Very nice, Brent!

An interesting method! Looks like it worked like a charm!

[Don Quixote]

This is interesting.
I think I have read something about ICE a while back, Brent.

What you have done here looks successful.
Thank you for posting.

[OhNo]

I goofed up. As I don't own a field Flattener I forgot to try another trick, which may or may not work. I should have taken the time to run another series of images with a better focus at the limb. Call it the poor mans attempt at field flattening!!!