Solar was a bust today with unuseable data so its time for something to share as I do profess to image a bit I cannot forget!
So I shot the full Moon on 7/3 last month with the At70 and an 850nm Ir pass then got bad cloud and went on vacation for a couple weeks...
Then,
Got the 2023 8/30 Big Blue Moon last night with the At70 and popped in a 5x barlow for the Saturn bonus round, 11 of 96 frames stacked for Saturn.
The full Moon from 7/3 is the bottom image.
Also made a quick comp to demonstrate the view last night!
I will get my new cam at some point and begin Lunar imaging with the 80mm
Image Details :
At70ed f4.8/f24
At80ed .8xfr
2x3x Barlow
850nm Ir pass
685nm Ir pass
Asi385mc
Asilive
AS3
AstroSurface
PhotoFiltre7
StaticMount
Full Moon stacks are 5% of 1300 frames.
Last nights Blue Moon and Saturn were both with the 685nm.
These are of course in near infra red so many of the details observed in these images cannot be seen at the eyepiece of a scope of 70mm, no hdr or other enhancements have been rendered.
I plan to begin adding conventional IR blocked imagry to my imaging sessions as a means to make comparisons of the two imagìng workflows and results, beginning in the next Lunar imaging session.
Hope you like them and best of Lunar imaging Indeed.
