Here is my first attempt at a lunar transit. The transit was at 4:35pm (NYC Time) so it was still light. The sky was clear but the seeing was pretty bad with 15mph+ winds. I used my 1600mm- Pro with a baader 2.25x barlow with my Stellarvue SVX80T-R.
I tried to get as close to the centerline path as possible from (Transit-finder.com) Then I checked out Google Earth and luckily found a small baseball field with a nice empty parking lot 45 min away from my house.
Now processing was a bit tricky as I have not processed anything like it where you get each frame of the
After that, I went into Photoshop and created an action to clean up the noise and make each frame better. After that, I went back into PIPP and created an
I also combined the stacked frames in an image from Photoshop. This was tricky since I never stacked the
I hope I explained this correctly and if there is a better way to bring it out then I would love to know But here is What I have below so far for processing it.
Sterllarvue SVX80T-R
iOptron CEM 70
ZWO 1600mm-P
Baader 2.25X Barlow
ZWO Red Filter
Frames captured=2096
File type=SER
Binning=no
ROI=4656x3520
ROI(Offset)=0x0
FPS (avg.)=19
Shutter=0.285ms
Gain=312 (52%)
YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKObPAh ... e=emb_logo